I am working on a project and this morning I bribed my child with lunch out if she allowed me to work a little this morning - uninterrupted!! I have a deadline... hard to work with a four year old underfoot - but it had to be done!
She was an angel this morning... I could not have asked for better behavior. So around noon, we packed up and headed to town -- one quick stop at the local WalM*rt and then we made it to Mellow Mushroom (one of our favorite pizza places!) just in time to beat the lunch crowd on a Saturday.
I have to brag on my child. She was so good... and normally, she and I have a bit of trouble alone, in public. She tends to try her boundaries when Daddy is not around...but not today. God gave her some extra "sit stilledness" and me some extra tolerance I guess - but we had the best restaurant experience to date!
We are home again and as I watched her play in the yard this afternoon with our dogs... running around, enjoying the beautiful weather... and I couldn't help but feel some pangs in this old heart.
She is just becoming too much of a young girl for me... I really didn't even mean to post about the bittersweet pangs of motherhood...but here I am - part of me so happy to have a little companion to shop and dine with, after all these years of being alone...and the other, BIGGER part of my heart, crying because this face
has been replaced with this...
a four year going on fourteen year old precocious, lovable, face!And now that I have made my mother cry...I am going to cry myself to sleep too!
Beverly
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