Things I Love, Part 2

The current view from my living room window:

Portrait(s) of a Young Girl with a Double Ear Infection

Don't worry though, just one day's worth of antibiotics and she looks like this:

Thank you God for medicine!




Now I'm sick.

Things I Love

Well, for starters:
This kid.

I love her many facial expressions.

I love the way she's mixed up the words "boo boo" and "ouchie" and now refers to all little scrapes and bruises as "boobies."

I love how she calls her dearly beloved bunny "Bun" and anything that looks remotely like Charlie Brown's dog "Snoop."

I love how I could hear her shouting across the entire bookstore this morning, "Mommy! Something's coming out of my bottom!" I love that - I really do. It made me laugh. She makes me laugh, when very few other things do.

I love that she is one hundred percent completely herself. I love that she has not yet learned to care about what she sees in the mirror. I even love that she has a knack for saying the very wrong thing at the very wrong time. Someday she will grow out of that, and I will miss it.

I love that she does not accept easy answers even as I want to strangle her for asking yet another question.

And I love that wherever she is, it is easy to see, to remember, the whole earth really is filled with His glory. Not just Notre Dame Cathedral, but McDonald's. Not just the Grand Canyon, but a broken-down playground in Nowheresville, USA.

What a gift that is!

What a gift she is, to me.