Grace in Small Things: Part 69 of 365
1. Newly cleaned sparkly jewelry. I don’t know when during a normal day I dip my entire hand into paint and cottage cheese, but it seems to happen with some frequency.
2. New words from a toddler: “flower,” “no kicking,” “deer.”
3. Radishes the size of my fist at the local grocer. I’m not sure I’d eat ‘em (that’s a lot of radish) but they’re gorgeous.
4. Ruby watched “The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning” the other day. I was in the same vicinity, doing dishes, folding laundry, etc., but I wasn’t watching enough to catch the nuances of the story. I stopped every 10-15 minutes and asked for an update…”what’s happening now,” “why is so-and-so doing that,” “what do you think will happen next?” At the very beginning, the queen had been killed by a pirate ship and the king had banished music in the kingdom as that had been one of his queen’s favorite things. Seafolk then had to sneak music. When I asked why she thought the king would do that, Ruby looked at me as if to say “DUH, Mom,” and shrugged her shoulders. With a weary shake of her head she sighed, “He’s devastated.”
5. Peter Bjorn and John, Young Folks
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