Someday

Someday by Alison McGhee and Peter H. Reynolds:

"One day I counted your fingers and kissed each one.
One day the first snowflakes fell, and I held you up and watched them melt on your baby skin.
One day we crossed the street, and you held my hand tight.
Then, you were my baby, and now you are my child.

Sometimes, when you sleep, I watch you dream and I dream too...
That someday you will dive into the cool, clear water of a lake.

Someday you will walk into a deep wood.
Someday your eyes will be filled with a joy so deep that they shine.
Someday you will run so fast and so far your heart will feel like fire.
Someday you will swing high - so high, higher than you ever dared to swing.
Someday you will hear something so sad that you will fold up with sorrow.
Someday you will call a song to the wind, and the wind will carry your song away.
Someday I will stand on this porch and watch your arms waving to me until I no longer see you.
Someday you will look at this house and wonder how something that feels so big can look so small.
Someday you will feel a small weight against your strong back.
Someday I will watch you brushing your child's hair.
Someday, a long time from now, your own hair will glow silver in the sun.
And when that day comes, love, you will remember me."

Emily doesn't yet appreciate books that make tears come into my eyes. She tries to be silly and make me laugh. Just another reason that I love her. I tell her that some tears are happy and she looks at me as if I really have gone bonkers.

I love children books that touches my heart and makes tears come to into my eyes. I love sharing these books with Emily. One day, I believe that her mind will remember my tears and her heart will finally understand them, understand the love, the happiness, the joy, the everything that fills my heart because of her. And then, we will be bonded together even tighter. This is just one of the many dreams that I have when I dream of her. God willing, it will come true.