Dear Daughter,
posted February 8th, 2007 by Shannon
It’s Thursday night and there’s so many things I should be doing to get ready for your party this weekend. There are balloons to be found and mermaids to be cut out. And have you seen your bathroom lately? It’s getting a bit nasty. That should really be cleaned before people get here so they don’t think we live like that all the time. Despite all the things I feel I need to be doing, I chose to go snuggle with you tonight. I haven’t done that in a long time. I doubt I’ll ever get to snuggle with my 5 year old little girl again. I bet you’ll be 6 by the next time. Here’s what I learned while we snuggled:
Sometimes when you wear your purple nightgown you like to pretend you are a mermaid. You dive under the blanket like it was water and you peek out the side. At dance class today, Miss Annie played some music and told you to raise your hand up really high if you liked it. She played a song from The Little Mermaid and you liked it so you raised your hand up really high but Deztiney didn’t. Then she played a song from The Lion King and Deztiney raised her hand up but you didn’t. She went with The Lion King song and you didn’t really like it. But now you like it okay. What does harmony mean? Like “perfect harmony†that’s in that song. You’ve never seen The Lion King and don’t really want to because you think it might be scary. Have you seen it Mommy? Did you like it? No, you didn’t know that Aunt Lala used to like The Lion King so much that she decorated her entire room with Lion King stuff. Does she still have her room decorated in Lion King? Did she ever ask Gran if Gran would decorate her whole house in Lion King? You’re so excited for your birthday. You know that tonight is Lilli’s first night to be 6. And tomorrow night will be her second night to be 6. And the night of your birthday will be the third night for her to be 6. You wonder why your brother wants to have more than you. You wonder why he wanted to eat more pretzels than you did tonight. “I love you so much Mommy. I love you so much that I want to be with you all the time. I used to really only want to be around Daddy all the time, but now I want to be around Daddy AND you all the time.â€
Gosh, what bathroom floor is really more valuable than that?
I love you, my little mermaid!
Mommy
Filed under: Family on February 8th, 2007
What a treasure! Thank you for sharing this special Mommy/Daughter evening with us. I wish that I had journaled some of the “tucking in to bed” stories that my daughters use to share through the years. This seems to be the time of day that my girls would talk and sometimes even share some of the things on their heart. One story that just popped into my mind that you shared one weekend when you were home from college with a twinkle in your eye and a sweet smile on your face about a camping trip you went on with a group of friends but one cool blond guy’s name kept coming up. So glad that the “he’s just a friend, mom” turned out to be your “wonderful husband”
Enjoyed visiting your blog. I hadn’t been there for a while, so I had quite a bit of reading and looking to do. I could see Hannah’s first tooth on the enlarged picture.
Love, Granny BJ
Tell Emily that in a heartbeat I’d decorate a room in Lion King again,… if it meant Clint and I had a room (house) of our own! Haha, oh well, one of these days.
Has she watched Lion King yet? It’s been probably 8 years since I have watched it,… and I won’t mind if it’s another 8 before I have to show a kid of my own. It *IS* a good movie, but I’m still recovering from self-inflicted overdose. 🙂
UPDATE: Thanks to Aunt Christy for letting us borrow the Lion King movie. Both kiddos have seen it now – twice, actually. It is now Emily’s favorite movie. She says she wants her NEXT party to be a Lion King party. According to her, we can play Pin the Tail on the Lion OR Pin the Mane on the Lion.
Oh, uh, really? Too bad I didn’t save ANY of my LK collection.