Triangle of Love

I was getting ready for work one day in October of 2012 when Anna said to me "Mom, tell me something that I don't know about how much you love me."  Abby was sitting next to me on the bed and Anna was standing in front of me.  Looking at both of them I proceeded to answer the question.

I said "Well Anna, what you don't know is how much love resides in my heart for you and Abby.   I have a lot of love in my heart.  Your heart comes to me and Abby's heart comes to me and your heart goes to Abby and Abby's heart goes to you and we make a triangle."  Showing them I made a triangle with my fingers connecting the pointer fingers and the thumbs.  Anna said so "Mommy you are at the top."  I said "yes, and that makes a complete family we are a triangle and our family consists of three hearts and I pointed to each point with me being at the top, Anna on the right and Abby on my left.  I then proceeded to take my fingers apart at the top and I said that when mommy is not around leaving the base connected I said you and Abby are still connected and when mommy comes home we connect again and we are a family."  I then proceeded to show them that sometimes it is me and Anna and sometimes it is me and Abby but the most important part is when we form the perfect triangle again and become a complete family.  The triangle represents our family and how wonderful our family is when we form the triangle.

So Abby looks at me and said "So I am on the left and Anna is on the right?"  I said yes but you could be on the right and Anna on the left it doesn't matter right or left the important part is you are point in the triangle and you are a part of our family.  Without the three of us we do not have a triangle.  Anna looked at me after much pondering and she said "Mommy, I understand and that makes sense to me." And from that point forward our love is a triangle and when mommy bends the her point down what does that make?  A heart and I showed them the heart with my fingers that our triangle of love is truly.  I showed them that it takes all three of us to make the triangle and to make the love of the triangle.  

The girls were so happy with the image of the triangle and I think of the trinity and three the universal number and when I think of the triangle there is three I am three sided at first I am the whole me and then I am Anna's mom and Abby's mom and each of them are different and pull from me as each child has different needs and they pull what they need. I give them all of me but then I see how they grow and I see what they need and desire.  So to be able to give a 6 and 8 year old about love in that fashion.  Anna went to school that day she talked about the triangle of love to her teacher and I received an email from her teacher that she learned about the triangle of love.  When I picked up Anna and Abby that day I asked Anna did you talk to the teacher about the triangle and she said yes.  I told her that we make a complete triangle as a family and even though we are separate when Abby and I are in school and mommy is at work when we come together we become a triangle again and I love my mommy.  

The triangle is my family with Anna and Abby at point.  We have many friends and family members a part of our triangle that are surrounded by our love within the triangle and I am forever grateful for all that share in our triangle of love.