A Book that Speaks My Heart

This book only has 28 pages and over half of each page is covered in pictures. The few words, though, are so powerful that I was crying by page two! After a week and a half of my girls beginning 4th and 2nd grade, and with only two weeks to go before my youngest starts preschool, I am feeling my time with them living under my roof is slipping quickly away. Maybe I’m being slightly dramatic, but I really feel like just yesterday I had my first little bald-headed baby. The first page has a mommy rocking her newborn and begins likes this: “If I could keep you little, I’d hum you lullabies.” Then you move to page two where you see a big girl stepped up to a microphone with her whole class behind her. “But then I’d miss you singing your concert’s big surprise.” It continues in this tear-jerking manner (it really was killing me!) until it wraps up with a class of high school seniors at graduation. “If I could keep you little, I’d keep you close to me.” “But then I’d miss you growing into who you’re meant to be!”

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