- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
My daughter Sophie just celebrated her second birthday a few days ago and I can't remember what life was like without her. All the happiness that she brings to my life makes me wonder what I did to smile before we had her and how on earth these past two years have flown by so quickly.
It's no wonder that we have had a revolving door of people at our house for the past two years. No matter how bad someones day is, they know that one moment with Sophie will make all the bad disappear. She has a way of turning any sadness around into pure joy. She turns a mundane task like folding laundry into a hysterical moment when she puts a pair of my underwear around her neck and calls them a necklace. Or when she finds her bathing suit in her drawer and puts the top on her bottom and bottom on her top and declares that she wants to go swimming like a goldfish in her "bathing soup!"
Right now Fia (a nickname she gave herself) is sleeping in her bed with her cow print gardening gloves on. She always has to take a "treasure" to bed with her. She makes me laugh when she says things with such conviction- "This lunch is scrumptious," or "I am comfy toesy!" And it is especially funny when she calls after her daddy, "Come here, honey!" because that's what I call him.
She is such a clever girl. And I am sure all moms say that about their kids, but Sophie is not all the other kids. She is mine. And she makes it easier to breath, to smile, to sleep at night and to wake up again in the morning. She fills my eyes with tears of joy and my heart with love and happiness. Anyone who is lucky enough to know her is a better person because of her.
Even though I was sicker than ever while pregnant with her, the joy she has brought to my life made me do it all over again to have her brother John. And because together they are so wonderful, I might even be crazy enough to do it again someday.
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