mom, remember when you would order scholastic books for us kids when we were in elementary school?! i would get so excited because i knew that meant we would read together!!! we would crawl up on my bed at nights and you would read aloud the new books. sometimes i wouldn't let you stop reading!! we went on so many adventures as each page turned and as each book came.
i get a ball in my throat and a warm tightness in my chest when i think of how i never told you how much i loved it--absolutely loved it, but i hope it showed!! i love that you shared one of your amazing and special talents; your love for reading, literature and books.
i just ordered our first set of scholastic books tonight! now i get to do this with my own jones and it is one of the highlights of my days!! "just one more chapter mom?!" and i can't say no because i love and want to know what will happen next! --even if it is a book from my own childhood that i've read once before! i recently introduced him to wayside school and told him all about the boxcar children. a smile crosses my face as i see in his eyes the world expanding and the endless possibilities making a difference in his young, growing life.
love you mom -- couldnt sleep until i wrote you -- 3:36am tuesday, september 3rd 2013.
