A Family Read-Along
While at work today, I received a care package to squeeze into an already stuffed care package (child's black with metallic silver star pattern backpack)(see photo in prior post). It contained a doll my grandmother knitted, clothes, toys, and a very special book. For Christmas I had given my parents a recordable copy of Guess How Much I Love You. The plan was for them to record it. We would bring it to Africa so that by the time she arrives in the States, she knows their voices a bit. Alas, all of our delays. My parents, my sister, and my little nephews worked together to record the story. It is so beautiful. It's the one thing (well, maybe in addition to the backpack with silver stars) that I have sent that I would love to be able to bring home. You hear love as they read the story.
Grandma's knitted doll didn't make the cut. She's here with me. Waiting.