outta the mouths.

On a particularly sad, exhausted and overwhelmed night ... as I sit at the computer and read well wishes, goodbye messages and already am mourning my amazingly gorgeous lilac bush (I KNOW, call it silliness, but I'm going to miss that smell!), I can't stop crying.

Nothin' like my 5.5 year old to give it some perspective.

Tony: "Mama ... what are you allergic to?"

[because I'm crying ... and we all have wicked allergies, to which one would assume that teary-bleary eyes = allergies]

Me : "Nothing baby, I'm just sad"

Tony: "Are you sad because Mia is losing Miss Beth?"

[Mia had her last day today with Miss Beth - our most favoritest daytime care-giver, 2nd mama extra-ordinaire]

Me : "No sweets.  I'm sad because it's hard to leave good friends.  Friends that I really, really like.  It's just making me sad"

Tony : "Well, mama.  I learned this from Flapjack ... wanna know what I learned?"

[Flapjack is one of my LEAST favorite Cartoon Network shows OF.ALL.TIME]

Me : "um, I guess.  What did you learn?"

Tony : "Mama ... you HAVE to know that when we leave friends, we get to make NEW friends .... and our old friends will ALWAYS stay our old friends"

Outta the mouths ...