“She takes care of people”
Kids, I think, sometimes just sense what other people need. When I was going through a “I-feel-like-a-bad-mom” phase a few months ago, Zoe came home from school one day with a paper on which she had written, “I love Mommy; she takes care of people.” And when I was in a bad mood this morning (I’ll spare readers of the reasons), she said to me, apropros of nothing, “I think you’re the bestest mommy in the whole wide world.” Things suddenly didn’t seem quite so bad!
-M