Today, I spent the morning with our daughter and grandson and it took me back many years.  As we were going from store to store my grandson would talk or make requests preventing my daughter and I from having a clear conversation.  It brought me back to the day she greeted me at the front door of her childhood home with half of her front tooth in her hand and the other half appearing jagged from her smile. And with tears streaming down her face she said,  “you went to the Mall shopping without me and see what happened.”  She has reapeated this many times to me through the years but not today.  Could it be that she now understands that mom’s can’t be everywhere and sometimes need to shop alone.  But I do wish that day I took you with me.   But the broken tooth did not hamper your smile or beautiful looks in anyway.  Nor did it change the beautiful laugh I love hearing.  Thank God for great dentists and sweet girls who forgive their mom’s who sometimes need alone time..