There are a number of things I could include under the heading of ‘Life’s greatest pleasures’, and if you know me at all (personally) there’s probably a list of things you’d expect me to write here. Maybe it would go something like this:
1. Baileys on ice
2. A long hot shower
3. Haigh’s Chocolate
4. Marriage
5. Sarah-Lee ice-cream
6. Sleeping in
7. A good book
8. A great movie
9. Receiving real mail. The old-fashioned type. You know – the kind that you wait all morning for the postman to deliver. 🙂
10. The smell of new pyjamas (which will always remind me of Christmas), tied with the smell of grass after it rains.
Well I’ve found something that tops all of these things. Actually, almost all of these things (I have to add that bit just in case my husband is reading this… 😉 ).
A smile. A totally unexpected, spontaneaous, pure, sweet smile, that starts in the heart and lights up the eyes. There’s nothing like it. And our son would have to be one of the best at giving them.
We were outside playing recently, with Jaedon on his bike and me chasing him around the yard. I guess he’s not quite over my 366 project yet because he suddenly stopped, looked me deep in the eye and said, questioningly, ‘camera?’ then proceeded to drag me up the stairs and back inside to find the said object. Not that we had to look too hard – it’s never far from arms reach (you know, just in case…). Then he pleaded earnestly, ‘photo…’ (this from a boy with a rather limited vocab, so I was suitably impressed). Then he searched out a place that, to him, was just so. Then he laughed as he posed and took off. Photo session over. I got one motion-blurred, out of focus shot in before he was gone. But as far as I see it, it’s perfect.
It’s the smile that only he gives me, that says what only him and me will ever understand. If I could reach into the monitor, grab his sweet little face and kiss it right now (while writing this) I would. The way that smile makes me feel is definately one of Life’s Greatest Pleasures.
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