This past weekend Miss Leah turned FIVE years old. Five seems so grown up - it is hard to believe! Leah got to pick the restaurant where we went out to Brunch for her birthday. Then, we did a little shopping and she traded in some of her birthday money for a new book, a purse, and a bow and arrow set at the Disney store. Yep. That's Leah in a nutshell right there, hah! She is delightful, and says the funniest things sometimes. And then at other times, she says such insightful things. The other morning in the car on the way to school she said to me out of the blue, "Mom, do you want to know what I think about this whole big wide world?" (I said yes, obviously!) Then she told me, "Well I think that the whole time we're in this whole world we're actually really in heaven already. And it's like we're dreaming the whole time we're on the Earth. And then when we wake up, we're in heaven! We don't even have to go anywhere!"
Sometimes, it takes a 5-year-old mystic to put life in perspective for you. :)
I told her it reminded me of a quote from St. Catherine of Sienna, who happens to be her patron saint. St. Catherine wrote, "All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus is the way."
Happy birthday to our little Leah bug!
Sometimes, it takes a 5-year-old mystic to put life in perspective for you. :)
I told her it reminded me of a quote from St. Catherine of Sienna, who happens to be her patron saint. St. Catherine wrote, "All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus is the way."
Happy birthday to our little Leah bug!
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