photos Archives | Jeanette LeBlanc https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/tag/photos/ Permission, Granted Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:56:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-IMG_5192-2-32x32.jpg photos Archives | Jeanette LeBlanc https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/tag/photos/ 32 32 wholeness https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/wholeness/ https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/wholeness/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:24:36 +0000 https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/?p=88 I’m on my way to bed, but I leave the hall light on for a moment to tiptoe into her room.  Every night I do this right before bed, sneak into their rooms one last time, my light kiss on the head a prayer to the universe to keep them ...

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I’m on my way to bed, but I leave the hall light on for a moment to tiptoe into her room.  Every night I do this right before bed, sneak into their rooms one last time, my light kiss on the head a prayer to the universe to keep them always safe.

On impulse, this night, I climb into her bed and curl my body around her sleeping form.  Her long legs are tangled in the sheets and her thumb has just fallen from her mouth, a little girl habit held onto only at bedtime.   I press my lips to her hair and breathe deeply.  She smells of chlorine and sweat and little girl summer and the plea leaps, unbidden, into my mind.

I have broken so many things along this journey. Please, please don’t let her be one of them.

And for the millionth time I make a silent promise to be better, more patient, more loving, every last little thing she deserves.  My only hope that she will find herself whole at the end.

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