After several months of temperatures lingering below freezing and many days well below zero, we were blessed with a weekend in the 40's!!! Saturday morning we wasted no time getting to the sledding hill. The hill was in perfect sledding condition and sparkled like diamonds in the suns rays. Standing at the top watching the girls, I was thinking to myself "this is so fun, I wish I had a camera and my sunglasses, boy it is really sunny, and the snow is so sparkly and I really wish I had some sunglasses, and...".
Just then, Piper hollered from the bottom of the hill "Mama! Quick! Come here!". Thinking she was injured, or even worse...she could have snow in her face-oh no, I ran to the bottom to rescue her.
She is all smiles and says with overflowing excitement "Mom! Lay on my sled with your head this way".
"Okay", I laid down on the sled with my head just so.
"Now Mom, look way up in the sky and see the rainbow"!!!
I'm thinking, "Oh cute, we're pretending there are rainbows - I love rainbows - this is super cute!"
I looked up into the bright clear blue sky just as she instructed, and there it was! In the the middle of the vast blue sky was the most brilliant rainbow ever!! I laid there with tears streaming down my cheeks.
"Do you see it mama"?
"Yes sweetie, I really see it"!
I laid there with tears of pure joy because if not for this beautiful, bright eyed, little girl, I would have missed the secret rainbow in the sky.
"Thank Piper", I whispered.
We're the Stern Family - Trent, Angella, Piper and Lucille. These are our stories..
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What a great story! I love looking a the world though the eyes of my child. She sees a lot of stuff I would miss!
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