We all have bad days...days where our minds and hearts are heavy...days where we are distracted and missing the beauty that is all around us. Today was one of those days for me, and while we were riding home tonight, I tried valiantly to place that aside and put my focus back where it needed to be.
I pointed out the window - "Brent, do you see all those trees! Spring is here, and look at all the white flowers that are blossoming on them!" He got so excited... "White flowers! So beautiful! Do you like flowers mommy?" "Well of course I do, baby," I said. "I'm going to get you some flowers, okay mommy!?"
And we talked some more on the way home, about odds and ends....about the rain and how the drops danced on the window...about how excited he is to go see Daddy tomorrow. We talked about which of Grandmum and Grandpaps dogs he likes best (it's Maggie, today...he said I can have Emily), and how his tummy was empty and he wanted to eat.
When we got home, he ran out of my hands and over into the grassy area off the sidewalks. I fussed at him impatiently to go up to the door and wait for me, juggling all the daily things I have to carry in from the car. And when I got to him, he was leaning down and before I could tell him not to pick the dandelion...that flowers were more beautiful if you left them there...he snatched it up and held it up to me. "See Mommy...I got you flowers today!" And even an impatient mommy has to drop everything and give that boy the biggest hug.
"Happy mommy?," he asked. I wished I could have answered more, but my muffled "Mmmmm Hmmm" was all I could manage with that lump in my throat.
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