The Conversation that Inspired this Blog

12/9/09 around 1130 hours:

Jordyn (getting out of bath): "Mommy, I'm feeling sad"

Me: "Why are you sad?" (wrapping her in her towel)

Jordyn: "That music makes me sad" (Referring to my iPod still playing music for her sleeping baby brother)

Me: "The music is making you sad?" (picking her up and holding her to my chest)

Jordyn: *nods*

Me: "Why does the music make you sad?"

Jordyn: ...

Me: "Is it because you used to listen to it when you would go to sleep?"

Jordyn: "Yeah"

Me: "But it's not sad music. It's a happy song, about a mommy who loves her baby"
(My bad - I was thinking it was Circle of Life from The Mother Album, Susan McKeown, when it was actually Avalon from the Avalon: A Celtic Legend by Enaid.)

Jordyn: ...

Me: "Does it make you sad because it reminds you of your old house* ?"

Jordyn: "Yeah"

Me: "Do you miss your old house? And your old room?"

Jordyn: "Yeah"

Me: "But do you like your new house? And your new room?"

Jordyn: "Yeah"

Me: "You just miss your old house and room sometimes?"

Jordyn: *nods*

Me: "Me too baby....me too."

She puts her head on my shoulder and hugs me tight. And then I just held her and let a couple of tears fall.

My baby is growing up too fast...


(*The house is emotional because we suddenly lost our house to foreclosure without notice in October, and had a week to pack up, find a place and move. I know it was traumatic for her, as it was for us)