Two things that I just HAD to post because I know I will never be able to regain the feelings, and I don't ever want to forget them.
This morning, I had come downstairs to start breakfast and I heard a rumbling upstairs. Then Sonora yelled, 'MOMMY!"
"What is it?" I yelled back up the stairs.
"THANK YOU FOR WASHING SNOW WHITE!"
It took me a half a second to realize exactly what she was talking about ... the rumble sound I heard was her dragging and dropping the footstool in front of her dresser drawer so she could reach to see inside.
"Your Snow White underwear?" I shouted.
"YEAH! SHE'S MY FAVORITE! THANK YOU FOR WASHING THEM!"
Oh my God. I was smiling from ear to ear for the longest time afterwards. As I type this, she is leaning on my leg saying, "you have to join me for a tea party." I tell her, "in a minute" which I HATE saying to her all the time. I try to limit the times I say that. Now she is entertaining herself on the piano singing "Deep in the hundred acre woods ..." the Winnie the Pooh song word for word.
Anyway, the reason she is so excited about me washing the underwear isn't because I rarely do laundry, quite the contrary, it feels like it's all I do. Well, she has soooo many pairs of underwear, but there is only ONE Snow White pair. The rest are all the other princesses, Dora and Elmo. She goes through them but asks for Snow White almost every day and I have to say, "remember? you wore them this week already, they're still in the laundry, I haven't washed them yet." So now, her extreme gratitude for me washing them was so heartwarming, I HAD to write it down before I forget the feeling.
The second thing I want to write is that a few moments ago, after I helped her in the bathroom, we came to her room to put on new underwear and she had her sparkly leather, beaded hot pink flip-flops on. She was trying to put her foot in the leg of her underwear and she said, "it's too big" and I stretched out the leg so she could get her foot in and I said, I know you don't want to take these shoes off honey, here ... let me help you get your foot in." And she gave me a HUGE hug and said, "mama, you're my best friend in the whole world."
Tears. Many tears. I love her sooo much. I always have, even the moments when she doesn't think I am her best friend. Sometimes it's nice when on their own they let you know they feel the same way about you.
