Kids....Just for one more day.....Rules to live by.

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Just for one more day.........

Just for this morning, I am going to smile when 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

sheets and I will hold you until you are ready for the day.

Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and

smile and say how perfect it is.

Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick you up

and take you to the park to play.

Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you

teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.

Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer

off, and sit with you in the back yard and blow 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 second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned.

Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't

stand over you trying to fix them.

Just for this afternoon, I will take you to Mc's and buy us both a

Happy Meal so 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 I love you.

Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.

Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch

and count all the stars.

Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my

favorite TV show.

Just for this evening, when I run my fingers through your hair as you pray,

I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given. I

will think about the mothers and fathers who are searching for their missing

children, the ones who are visiting their children's graves instead of their

bedrooms, and those who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer

senselessly, and screaming inside that they can't handle it anymore, and when I

kiss you goodnight, I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is

then that I will thank God for you, and ask him for nothing, except for just one

more day.