There are few things that are more precious in this world to me, than a big, wet smack on the lips from my daughter who just finished eating her cinnamon toast! It's moments like these that I wish I could stop time and hold that little face in my hands, and somehow make her understand how much I absolutely adore her, and how proud I am that she's my daughter! I realize in that moment that this won't last forever, and as the years pass, she may forget to give me a simple kiss goodbye on her way out the door to go visit her friends.
Have you ever wondered how mom's can put up with those dirty faced kisses? I use to, until I became a mother myself. You see, I think God created mothers with the ability to see past the "cinnamon toast on the face", as a picture of how He loves us! Not that He, nor the mother, ignores the mess, rather they choose to express their love in spite of it. To everyone else, the dirty faced kisses are completely undesireable, but to a mother, they are priceless!
I understand completely! Even though you know the face is in need of a clean wipe, you see past it and see the precious spirit waiting for an embrase. Or Kiss. When I see little ones now, it throws me back to the years our girls were small and am so thankful that most of my memories are good ones. We won't talk about the not-so-good ones. =}
ReplyDeleteI got peanut butter toast kisses from Morgan this morning!
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