Just For This Day
Just for this morning, I am going to smile whenever I see your face, and laugh when I feel like crying.
Just for this morning, I will let you wake up softly, all rumpled in your flannel pajamas, and hold you until you are ready to stir.
Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and smile and say how beautiful you are.
Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry to pick you up and take you to the park to play.
Just for this morning, I am going to eat a huge breakfast , with bacon, eggs, toast and waffles, and you don't have to eat any.
Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that 100 piece puzzle together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off and sit with you in the garden blowing bubbles.
Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by.
Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up or who you might have been before your diagnosis.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't stand over you trying to 'fix' things.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you put all kinds of barrettes in my hair and lipstick on my face, and I will tell you how pretty you have made me look.
Just for this afternoon, I will take you to McDonalds and buy us both a Happy Meal, so that you can have both toys.
Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born, and how much we love you.
Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the bathtub and not get angry when you throw water over your sister's head.
Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch swing and count all the stars.
Just for this evening, I will bring you glasses of water, and snuggle beside you for three hours, and miss my favorite show on TV.
Just for this evening, When I kneel down to pray, I will simply be grateful for all that I have and not ask for anything.
Except just one more day.
Sally Meyer 1999
Autism is not the end of the World. . . .
just the beginning of a new one.
copyright 1999. Sally Meyer ↓
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| Name: amanda stringer | Date: Aug 1st, 2005 9:30 PM |
| that is so beautiful ive never read anthing like that before you actually brought a tear to my eye ↑ |
| Name: susan Maxwell | Date: Aug 28th, 2005 7:01 PM |
| Thank You for a wonderful reminder! ↑ |
| Name: Carol | Date: Aug 29th, 2005 3:03 AM |
| I have read this before and it is so touching. With our busy day to day lives and trying to have a "normal" life we sometimes forget to sit back and take the time to reconnect. Thanks for opening my eyes again! ↑ |
| Name: Loc | Date: Sep 2nd, 2005 3:39 AM |
| This is such a beautiful poem and it, too, brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for reminding me of the greatest present my family and I have in my son. ↑ |
| Name: Lauri | Date: Sep 20th, 2005 9:23 PM |
| Name: beth | Date: Nov 6th, 2005 11:02 PM |
| that is SO SO SO touching. Thank you for reminding me about my greatest joy in life my two kids ↑ |
| Name: armena | Date: Nov 6th, 2005 11:39 PM |
| I have been crying now for 15 min.Just can't stop crying.Fells like I wrote it my self ↑ |
| Name: Tashia | Date: Jul 1st, 2006 5:01 AM |
| This is just what I needed. ↑ |
| Name: Tara | Date: Jul 2nd, 2006 7:17 AM |
| How lovely!!! Something all parents should read. Brought a wee tear to my eye. Thank you. ↑ |
| Name: melissa | Date: Jul 8th, 2006 12:11 AM |
| Name: Anne | Date: Jul 15th, 2006 10:45 PM |
| Says it all really. It's just a new world we have instead of what we first thought and we love them no matter what. ↑ |
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