This little card from my daughter is the latest in special  pictures she brings home from first grade.   She’s walking under a rainbow with a sun surrounded by little hearts.  Can life get any better??  This little drawing just brought me such amazing joy.

Each day when I unpack her backpack to look for messages from her teacher and see what she didn’t eat in her lunch, I am gifted with one or more of her creations.  The most common themes this year are hearts, stars, smiling faces, little sweet animals.  Each one is signed “To Mom, XO Emma”   I have saved each and every one of her creations from the past 6+ years.  I don’t think any piece of paper that she has put a mark of any kind on has made its way into the trash.  When they fill up the kitchen drawer, I move them into a big plastic box (we’re on box #6 I think now.) 

Each day, I marvel at how blessed we are that this little angel is our daughter.   Xo, Mommy.