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I carry your heart with me

mommyeverafter — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:37:53 +0000

I have now fallen into the role of doing bedtime for my daughter every night.
Sometimes I am in a rush,
to cook, or to make it on time for a dinner reservation or the start of a tv show,
but other times I savor the time, letting the minutes roll by as we linger in the dark, under her covers.
Tonight’s bedtime stories were different;
usually they are fanciful, made up tales about the popular character of the day;
but tonight, I told her the story of when we first brought home our dog Lola.
She giggled.
And she told me that while I was getting acquainted with Lola, she was busy planting flowers with D’Ba.
And I just felt so much love for her bursting out of every part of me.
And what came out of my mouth was a line from ee cummings,
“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows”
and then I read to her the whole poem.
And she said, in a whisper,
“Mommy, you carry my heart with you and I carry your heart with me. Because I love you.”
She knocked the wind out of me with that one.
I am welled up with tears as I type.

here is the deepest secret nobody knows,

my dear girl.

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart).

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“Once Upon a Time…”

mommyeverafter — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 23:05:37 +0000

“…in a quiet village, there lived a girl named Cinderella. But she was very very kind to animals and she feeded her animals. They were very nice to Cinderella. One was named Gus. She had to leave to go to the ball but she had to leave at midnight but she left a glass slipper behind. The prince went to find the beautiful girl. And they fell in love and they lived happily ever after.”
-Bedtime story, as told by my kid…
yet…don’t know happy ol’ Cindy would be if she knew that she cheeky almost four year old was totally trying to steal her man.
Just sayin’.

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Sometimes.

mommyeverafter — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:40:03 +0000

Sometimes, being a mommy gets overwhelming. Sometimes, I have moments of exasperation, like I shared earlier.
But then sometimes, the baby goes to bed extra early,
and my husband and I both get to do bedtime for the biggie,
and I get to tell two bedtime stories: One made up about a place called Alasia, where Queen Elsa, Princess Anna, Princess Leah and Darth Vader all live and one about the night she was born.
And then I get to snuggle up with her, and sing to her this song, almost as a whisper,

The warmth of your love’s like the warmth of the sun…
…now we’re there and we’ve only just begun.
And it’s those times for which I live.

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