The sun sets on another day…
The sky was beautiful, and I scrambled everywhere with fiery determination to take a good picture. I missed, but it was still a great night.
Tonight, I read a new book. Actually, I read that book about 20 times. Well-being the babysitter I picked a new book instead of reading beauty and the beast another time. I pulled the book off of the counter and it looked like it had never been read.
The book is called if I was the sunshine, and it is a series of relationship statements guided by poetic verse built into a child’s book. As I sat reading the book my granddaughter became enthralled. Hence the end game of reading the book about 20 times. We rapidly built up a pattern and as I was reading with passion and prowess, my year and a half year old granddaughter paused with me at the end of every line.
So “if I was the sunshine and you were the day, I’d call you hello and you’d call me stay” and on that last word she would do as I did, and draw out the words stay.
I wish I could have recorded it. My grandson who was lost in a television show for a moment turned off the TV and came up and sat with us. At first he said he didn’t like the book, a moment later he joined in and was repeating the words at the end of each set just as my granddaughter did.
The TV was off, we sat in an oversized chair, and the night was good.
It’s funny, in preschool they teach signing basics. As I closed the last page each time and began to close the book, my granddaughter put her fingers together and repeated the words and the sign “more, more” until I started over and once again they were mesmerized.
I don’t know higher level the book is much deeper than a child can understand, but somewhere in the midst of it all foundations were laid tonight, and perhaps they will no longer worry about the difference between the silence and the storm.
So as the sun sets on another day, if you’re interested, you can get the book on Amazon here. It’s a fun read and very enjoyable. It is almost hypnotic as well and the illustrator did a fantastic job. Books are the foundation for the world, keep them close and make sure you enjoy time with your grandchildren or children and remember to turn the TV off. Keep being awesome every day, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, lover life, and night night…