My oldest daughter told me about a happening in class yesterday.

I had let her wear one of my new shirts to school, and while she stood in front of the class presenting a year-end project, one of her classmates complimented her on her shirt, to which she responded, “Thanks. It’s my mom’s.”

Then another of her classmates said, “That’s cool that you would mention that.”

“Well, I love my Mom,” she replied.

She didn’t need to tell me about it, but I can’t tell you how much it impacted me that she, a “way cool” teenager, admitted to her classmates that she loved her mom…and that she even told me about the dialogue at all.

I want to cry happy tears.

I love you too, Acia!

© Alexa Lopez 2008