Rachel and I spent tonight preparing cards for Daddy, PopPop and Grandpa. She decorated your cards with lovely, messy drawings, which we both hope you'll like.
She has been unusually affectionate the last couple of nights, probably because Mommy has been in a fairly calm mood and not prone to snappishness or moodiness. Of course, that could change by the end of the week when I do yet another big housecleaning, but hopefully I will have stored up enough goodwill so that she'll brush off my impatience and exasperation.
"You are the awesomest Mommy!" she said last night.
"What makes me so awesome?" I asked.
"Because," she answered. "You love me very much."
Ah, yes, that is true, and I'm so glad she sees me expressing it.
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"What are you favorite flowers?" she asked me. Before I could answer, she said, "I know! A rose."
When I said I couldn't choose because I like so many, she said, "I love roses, I love marigolds, I love poppies..." maybe she'll turn into the gardener this family so desperately needs.
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"After I put out the glasses, I'm going to go into my room and get my cell phone and TEXT!" Rachel said on the way home from school (one of her chores is setting the dinner table, and "glasses" refers to drink glasses).
"Why?" I asked.
"Because texting is awe-SOME!" she sang out.
The cell phone is a non-working smartphone she got from the folks at Verizon last night. My cell phone started bleeding ink onto the screen, which is a sure indication the screen is about to go black, so I went to the mall last night and ended up getting a free upgrade. The guys there were so charmed by her that they gave her a "toy" phone to play with after asking my permission first. I made sure they took out the battery so she couldn't accidentally call, say, Brussels.
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"What does heaven look like?" Rachel asked at dinner.
"Nobody knows," I replied. "Some people don't believe in heaven."
"I think it looks like a play structure," she said. "People can climb on it and never get hurt, ever ever!"
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