I stopped to watch my little girl busy playing in her room. In one hand was a plastic 1; in the other a
toy broom. I listened as she was speaking to her make-believe little friend and I’ll never forget the words
she said, even2 it was a pretense.
She said, 'Suzie’s in the corner because she’s not been very3 . She didn’t listen to a4 I said or do the things she should.' In the corner I saw her baby doll all dressed in lace and pink. It was5 she’d been put there to sit alone and6 .
My daughter7 her “conversation”, as I sat down on the floor. She said, “I’m all fed up. I just don’t
know what to do with her any more. She cries whenever I have to work and wants to play s, too.
She never8 me do the things that I just have to do.
She tries to help me with the dishes, but her arms just cannot9 . And she doesn’t know10 to fold
towels. I don’t have the 11to teach. I have a lot of work to do and a big house to keep clean. I don’t
have the time to sit and play-12 what I mean?”
And that day I thought a lot about some13in my life, as I listened to her14 words that cut me like a knife. I hadn’t been payi ng enough attention to what I hold most15 . I’d been caught up in
responsibilities that increased throughout the year.
But now my16has changed, because, in my heart, I realize that I’ve seen the world in a different17 through my little darling’s eyes. So, let the cobwebs(蜘蛛网18 the corners and the dust bunny rabbit
rule the floor. I’m not going to worry about keeping up with them19.
I’m going to fill the house with 20of a child and her mother, for we are granted only one childhood,
and we will never get another.