knowing my kids, according to mady

yesterday while having a convo with mady we were talking about a mother who wants to know every detail of her kids' life.  she said to me, "mommy, you don't need to know every detail about our lives, do you, because you know US, how we are deep down."  i fought the tears.  i deeply love my kids.  i love it when they tell me the details, but i don't expect, or need, them to.  God gives them friends, friends' parents, and in-laws (and aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.).  i rely completely on God, on knowing that HE gave them to us for a while and we are imperfect parents.  i will not parent perfectly.  neither will ed.  neither will those mothers who i look up to.  i have regrets, sure, don't we all?  but i have a responsibility and God is sovereign.  i rest in that.