30 Days of Thanks: Day 9
Today I am thankful for:
Sian.
You see, I have a complex about the kid. He has these eyes. These big beautiful blue eyes. They are the eyes that make people comment, the first thing people see, and what people remember. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “Oh, my GOODNESS, those EYES!”
I love him, and they are beautiful, but they are the ONE THING that he very obviously did not get from me. Brown eyed girl over here, not even a chance. He got my nose. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very nice nose. It smells stuff and everything but, well, it’s a nose. And he got quite a lot of my personality (poor kid), but that’s not so much a first impression kind of thing.
So yesterday in Day of Thanks #8, I posted a photo of me that was 15 years old. Here’s what Sian had to say,
But the smile… it’s exactly the same!! And the coolest thing about it? There’s another guy in the house that, underneath the blue eyes that his daddy passed on, has the exact same infectious smile!
For that, I love her. Well, I love her for lots of reasons, but she knows about my particular complex, and it turns out he *does* have something else of mine. And she thinks it’s infectious (I’m pretty sure in a good way, but you can never tell with Sian) and she noticed enough to comment on it and make my day.
I have a similar complex, because C looks nothing like me and I’ve been hearing since the day she was born that she is her daddy’s double. And I think she’s beautiful, and I love that she looks the other person I love most in the world, but…I did all the work, man!
I like to say that she may have all of his individual features, but the fact that she is beautiful? Comes from me.
Edit: “I love that she looks so much like the other person I love most in the world”. There, that’s better.
Beautiful ABSOLUTELY comes from you!