Beautiful Words

This afternoon, during Christian's physical therapy session, I was in the kitchen doing the dishes, and Tes was coloring in the living room.  I was feeling pretty lousy, no big surprise after being sneezed, spit, and thrown up on all weekend.  It was taking forever for me to get anything done, and I felt like I was walking in quick sand.  My head was floating and the dishes didn't seem to be getting any cleaner.  Then Tessie called me from the living room, asking me to come look at something.  I gladly accepted the distraction.

I walked over to the table and followed her direction to look at her sketch book.  She had written, plain as day, the words BRAVE and CHICKEN.  I was immediately pulled out of my funk as I marveled at what was in front of me.  "See," she said proudly, "I wrote BRAVE, just like this."  She gestured to a book of the same title on the table, and I realized she had been copying words she recognized from various books and movies.  I had never seen her write so neatly and legibly before.  "I am so proud of you!" I gushed, and hugged her tightly to me.  I love that she is so interested in writing and learning to spell.  Even through my haze I swelled with pride.  Who would of thought that a few words written in crayon could be so beautiful.