2 Days in a row!

I'm on a roll. I guess I just realized how much I love to read everyone else's blogs and how disappointed I am when I go to read them and they are not updated.

I read a great blog yesterday and stole the following little story from it. It is so sweet/sad, that I just wanted to keep it and share it all at the same time. It's about what love means to children and this was an excerpt from the story:
*There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

In the midst of teaching, I forgot how sweet and innocent children are. This story brought tears to my eyes because it made me think of my grandfather when he lost my grandmother. It was Christmas 2008, just 2 weeks after she passed. My husband, sister and I were at my grandpa's house when he gave us our Christmas presents. Grandma had made them before she passed. It was a letter from her and a candle that smelled like her scent. We all cried when we opened them. After we calmed down, grandpa started to cry. It was then that my dad came in and just went over to grandpa and held him.

Just thinking about that memory makes me cry. In a way, my dad was that little boy helping his dad cry.