Imprints

As I was taking my girls to school one morning when they were young and we looked up into the sky and saw a beautiful "La Luna." (moon). Yes, that is what we call the moon. We have called it "La Luna" (which is the spanish word for moon) ever since my daughter watched Bear in the Big Blue House when she was in preschool. Bear would conclude each show by talking to his friend "La Luna."

It occurred to me how easily our children change our view of the world. They have left such a mark on how we see things as well as changing the way we talk about them.

When we see a beautiful sunrise in the mornings, my girls and I like to say "God has been painting." And when my youngest daughter was really small; she was deathly terrified of big windstorms. So one day I told her to be still - that that was God waving to her! It worked and she became less afraid of the wind.

There are so many other expressions that my children use that have become a part of me and have left imprints on my heart.

When I have a question sometimes, I say, "I wanna wonder" because that is what my stepson would say when he was curious over something when he was small. If something is gross, it will forever be "gicky" in our house, and I think we will always hold tender to our hearts nights when we have a good "snuggle sleep" before we were "wakin!"

Yes, children leave imprints on our lives from the very beginning. And on that morning a sweet smile fell across my face as we all acknowledged how beautiful "La Luna" was. It proceeded to permeate my heart as we passed "squowskies" (Schlotsky's) and as I sent my girls off to school with hugs and "lub you's."

How empty my life would be without their presence.