And we are finished

With nursing, that is.  I have such mixed feelings about this.  Goodbye mastitis, goodbye clogged ducts, goodbye biting, goodbye midnight feedings, goodbye being tied to a chair and boppy pillow.  Those things I will not miss.  I will miss the sweet individual time I had with my daughters.  I will miss the close feeling I had when I nursed them.  I feel like this is just one more step in a long line of things that will lead to their independence.  While that is really wonderful, and one of the goals of being a parent, it also makes me a little sad to see this phase end.  Sometimes all I want is my mother.  I hope that I can raise women that are able to be independent, but also want to continue to have a close relationship with their family, like my mother has raised me.