Every once in awhile, in our mundane lives, we are blessed with a special moment that just seems to stay with us forever. I have a feeling the particular moment about which I am writing, will be one of those moments.
Me and baby have been very unwell for several days now and today was especially bad as I felt particularly awful and to add to that feeling, guilty for not doing more with the wee one as I just did not have the energy.
However, when putting baby down tonight and giving him his last bottle of the day, I held him in my arms, gave him my usual kiss on the forehead and told him I love him. The little man is cuddled up in and holding on to his favorite blanket. This blanket is showing some serious wear and tear and it doesn't matter how much I wash it, the corners, which he sucks on continually, remain filthy looking and scraggly.
The bottle is approaching near empty and baby continues to play with the dirty corner of his blanket. Well I will be darned if he doesn't offer me the corner to suck on. He holds up this ratty, dirty corner of the blanket to my lips. Well what does a mother do? Of course, I took a small bit of the ratty corner in my mouth for just a moment and told him thank you. But what a sweet thing for him to do - offer mommy his favorite blanket to suck on, I mean in his world and in his mind, who wouldn't want to suck on it?
My boy is my treasure, that's for sure. There are so many special moments in motherhood but I just know that will be one I won't forget.
~M~
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