As a mum of a little girl speeding (it seems) towards adolescence I often wonder what will change in our relationship.

I am told it is inevitable that she will stop seeing me as the centre of her universe.

That we will no longer see eye to eye, that she will challenge and catch me out.

And that she will lean on and push the boundaries that I have created to protect my little girl from the world.

I know she will grow into her own person, with her own dreams, her own inner thoughts and her own drive and determination to succeed.

After all, how could she not, she is my flesh, and everything that I have taught her, every lesson instilled is in there somewhere.

She will need to find her own way, and navigate her own path. I know this.

And I know that our relationship will morph into a new version. It has to.

But as her mum & protector, I will always be holding her hand in my heart, just like I do now.

Just as I know Sandra does with Emma, who I was blessed to capture, at what is such a precious time for a Mother & her daughter.