Kiss my heart

Tonight as I was holding clear before putting her in her bed, which only happens briefly and rarely these days as she is a big five-year-old and I have my bad back, I’m kissing her and she starts lifting her head up real high. I laugh and kissed her neck and she giggles. Then I try to kiss her cheek again and she repeats lifting her head. We get going I put her in her bed. I said “what are you doing?” 

She says, “mommy I want you to kiss my heart because that’s where kisses go. That way the kids can go directly into my heart and give me even more love.”

I just smiled and my heart melted a little bit. I told her that was the best idea I’ve ever heard. And I kissed her little heart. She smiled and said, “that was the best way to do it because he could go right to her heart. Right mommy?!”

This little girl finds a way to show me so much love everyday. She isn’t put off by my grouchiness. She isn’t put off when I’m in a hurry because I have a million things to do once I finally get her and her siblings into bed. She I’m sincere. She is sweet. She is thoughtful. She is brilliant. And she just amazes me when she comes up with these thoughtful ideas.