lessons in love

Have I introduced you to Baby Susan? How perfectly awful of me to neglect it. As you can see, she has been a part of our family for quite a long time (at least in kid years) and she has definitely seen better days. Yes, she used to have arms and even legs, though from her very first day with us she was...decorated with bursts of crayon all over her face.

The most amazing thing about Baby Susan (not including the fact that I've convinced Maisey to throw her away 10 times and, no matter how crafty I am, somehow Maisey always seems to find her and dig her out of the trash pile.) is how well she is loved. She is accepted as she is, and as she...is not. She (obviously) isn't judged by her appearance, but loved in spite of it. And I can not convince her mother that there is anything wrong with her. She just doesn't see it. Yesterday, for the last time, I tried to toss out Baby Susan but she was once again rescued by love. My little girl delicately picked her up out of the trash I was hiding in my studio and held her close. "She just needs a little more love. I need to love on her just a little bit more." Maisey once briefly consented to put her in our garage sale--but what do you ask for something, er someone, like that? She is priceless.

In other news, I have a new baby, too, but it isn't quite as hard to let her go. I know she is going to a good home.

I think this is one of my favorite bags so far and it was nice to just admire her yesterday, but she is now on her way to her new home in North Carolina. I've got one more bag to finish, then Olive & Archie (still) and a new flouncy skirt for Maisey. The skirt is amazing and I can't wait to try it out. I took a little break last night to work a bit in paint and will hopefully have something to show for it tomorrow. Until then, some true wisdom I learned from my daughter:

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being. --Goethe

Comments

[Pilar Pollock]

What a beautiful story about love and acceptance. I firmly believe our children are our teachers.

[tanaya]

Baby Susan is so lucky to be a part of your little family. I mean come on, who wouldn't just die to be loved like that.

It sounds to me, like you are raising an amazing little girl! :)

[Joy Logan]

What a wonderful saying!!! I spent most of 20+ years working in hospitals...I used to say to coworkers who were not always nice "treat everyone as if they were your loved one,mother,sister,etc"

[Virginia]

I like your blog!!!

[Stacy]

Great blog. Yes, amazing how children can be priceless themselves in their views on the otherwise ordinary.