As we walked into church this morning the lobby was saturated with baked goods and desserts. The butterflies of anxiety came over me and I reached for Sophia's hand to guide her into Mass quickly. Who would ever know that beautiful looking baked goods, baked by the hands of our community for an even more beautiful cause, could be life threatening? We made it all through church with no problems. I think today someone Bigger was watching out.
Three years ago, we walked into our local Claires Store. My ,then, 4 year old had accomplished the scholastic feat of learning all of her continents, oceans, and the entire milky way! I had been prodding her growth with promises of something from the store, as a sort of reward. Claires ( http://www.claires.com) is such a fun store for girls, and the girlie side of us women! My daughters made their way through the sparkle and frills and back to the Disney princess lip-glosses for kids. I bought one and thought "it worked! The knowledge and the bribe were complete!" But, as she ripped off the wrapping to her new lipgloss in the car and applied her new sparkly, "fun" lip gloss--our worlds changed! Her face began to swell with hives. I was driving and looking back on her telling me something was wrong and what I saw made me grow scared, really, really scared. I pulled over and jumped out of my vehicle and got to her. I wiped off the lipgloss and washed her face with
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