Writing it Down for Posterity

After all of our recent struggles with Avery (and things have slowly been getting better, very very slowly), she totally blew me away with something she said tonight and so I have to write it down, because it may be a very very long time before I ever hear anything like it again!  As she was going to bed she said, "Mommy, I love you so so so much!" and I said, "and I love you too!" and she said, "And thank you for taking such good care of me, and making sure I'm always safe and healthy and alive, because I only have one life."  I have no idea where that came from, but it brought tears to my eyes!