Things for granted…
It’s amazing the things in life we take for granted or get to easily to easily excited over. Yesterday Alora came frantically running into the office to ask where her My Little Pony book was. She needed it urgently, she told me. I pointed to the corner of the office where all the new Christmas books are stacked awaiting a home. She scrambled over to the pile and dug out the thick pink book and started wildly flipping pages. She kept muttering to herself “Where is that page, I know it’s in here!” Finally, she proudly waltzes up to me with her Melissa and Doug wooden ice cream cone set in one hand and holds up the My Little Pony book in the other, to what seems to me a random page and says “Look mom! I’m holding the same ice cream cone Minty is sharing with Rainbow Dash.” Low and behold in this story the ponies were sharing a double scoop vanilla and chocolate ice cream cone and Alora proudly produced her cone in her hand and they were identical. She then asked if i would like to share a “lick” with her.
In anyone else’s life this would seem trivial, but in my life I see this as a small beaming moment when she has memory recognition, math patterns and a sharing heart. I’m glad a took a few moments away from my “computer time” to share it with her.