M O M

Grace is a big Pre-K girl this school year. She is 4 1/2 years old and is working hard on learning her ABC's and her 123's.  She can write her name but that is really the only word in her writing vocabulary.  Every day she practices writing letters. Every day she works to hold that pencil just right and connect the lines just right.  

Yesterday she gave me a piece of paper.  She said "I made that for you."  I told her thanks and put it in the passenger car seat.  Sweet Grace brings home lots of papers every day and I usually put them all in a pile then look through them at a later time.  When I was cleaning out the car, I was going through the papers and I saw this.... M O M.  Wow.  I put it carefully in the front seat.  

Later when we were back in the car, she saw the piece of paper she had so carefully written MOM on.  She picked it up and again said "I made that for you. I want you to keep it forever."  Again, wow.  Our little girl has come so far.  I am so proud of the effort she puts into learning. It may not come easy to her to sit and write. To know her letters and her numbers sometimes is a struggle.  But oh how I will treasure this piece of paper and the first time she wrote MOM.