Just for this day.

Just for this morning, I am going to smile whenever 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 flannel and I will hold you until you are ready.

Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear,
and smile and say you’re beautiful.

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 am going to eat a huge breakfast , with
bacon eggs, toast and waffles, and you don’t have to eat any.

Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and
let you teach me how to put that 100 piece puzzle together.

Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the
computer off, and sit with you in the garden blowing 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 who you might have been before your diagnosis.

Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and
I won’t stand over you trying to ‘fix’ things.

Just for this afternoon, I will let you put all kinds of barettes
in my hair, and put lipstick on my face, and I will tell you how
pretty you have made me look.

Just for this afternoon I will take you to McDonalds 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 we love you.

Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the bathtub and
not get angry when you throw water over your sister’s head.

Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit
on the porch swing and count all the stars.

Just for this evening, I will bring you glasses of water, and snuggle
beside you for three hours and miss my favorite show on t.v.

Just for this evening, When I kneel down to pray, I will simply
be grateful for all that I have and not ask for anything, except

Just one more day.

Sally

Autism is not the end of the World. . . . just the beginning of
a new one. copyright. 1999. Sally Meyer Rainmom2000

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