Toddler love
Posted on | August 21, 2007 | 10 Comments
Just now as I sat down to write, Bean came up to me with a dishtowl. He’d been playing with his digger in the kitchen. I’m in the livingroom, sunk deep into the comfy white armchair, my feet up, sun slanting in through the bay window where I keep all my potted plants.
He said, “I gonna clean your feet, mama.”
And then he gently wiped down my feet and legs with the towel. He then proceeded to tenderly kiss my legs and ankles. Hovering especially over my ‘owies’–the small scars from recent and not so recent encounters with blackberry bushes or bike pedals.
I had no idea love could feel like this.
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I am Christina Rosalie
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August 21st, 2007 @ 8:57 am
How very sweet!
I had to leave a comment when I noticed in the side bar that you are reading Tim Winton! The Turning is such a great collection of stories. I love the way he weaves them together into a beautiful tapestry with a running thread connecting the characters and their experiences. It has a lot of depth. Tim Winton is indeed one of my favourite Australian authors. His ‘Cloud Street’ (amazing) and “the Riders’ as well as ‘Dirt Music’ are all great reads. I hope you enjoy it:)
August 21st, 2007 @ 9:59 am
:_)
August 21st, 2007 @ 11:48 am
*melts into a puddle*
August 21st, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
Sweetness.
August 21st, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
Lily once gave Mark a pedicure complete with “nail cutting” that was somewhat painful and a brilliant blotchy paint job. It was wicked awful to behold, yet he couldn’t stop grinning for a week. Ah, they change your perspective on everything, don’t they?
August 22nd, 2007 @ 1:15 pm
WOW. I love these moments.
August 22nd, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
This post alone is a perfect illustration of why I want to nominate you for a Reflective Blogger award. Your blog brightens my day when I get to it. If you’ve already been nominated, I’m sorry to be duplicating. I’ve been away. The post is long, but the relevant part is in the section at the very end.
http://greenishlady.blogspot.com/2007/08/and-where-have-i-been.html
August 25th, 2007 @ 10:47 am
Yes.
August 30th, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
so glad i found you…
and this post is some of the sweetest words written, ever.
sigh.
goodgoodstuff here. i’ll be back.
September 10th, 2007 @ 9:26 am
How dear.