Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Three more bites

The other night Natalie wanted to leave the dinner table.

"Three more bites," I said. And then I returned to eating and thinking. And soon she pulled me back from my drifting.

"All done, Mama." Had she eaten three bites? Really?

"Yes, three." I didn't believe it.

"Are you fibbing, Natalie?"

"Nooooooo."

"It's not right to fib. Did you really eat three bites?"

"Yyyyyyep!"

I sized her up. She held my gaze. What now?

"You know God watches over us. Right, honey?"

"Yyyyyyep!" She goes to kindergarten at a Methodist church, after all.

"He's always watching us. Always."


She kept her eyes on mine. And then a smile spread across her face.

"I eat one more bite, Mama."

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