JAZZ UP YOUR LIFE

Lately Jazz has been dressing herself. She will soon be four and is fiercely independent. She puts multi-colored bows in her hair and she wears colors together that Stacey and Clinton would never allow. Her favorite color used to be blue but the “NEW” Jasmine’s favorite is purple. Daily she decides which Jasmine she is. The old Jasmine, the new Jasmine, Your Jasmine or just Jazz.
The other day I asked if I could be the NEW Anita she laughed and said “No! Your just a Neen.” (‘Neen’ is a nick name coined by my sister, I call her Steen, It is something her kids have picked up, they don’t know my real name even though it is Jasmine’s middle name.)
When she comes over wearing a purple sweater, a red shirt, a green skirt, blue leggings, pink socks and boots. I wonder where all my inborn creativity has gone. She is a work of art, she should be in a magazine called Baby DIVA.
I think that spirit within us as children gets squashed by our “what not to wear” conventions. Who decides what is in and out, who gets to say what is beautiful. That creativity can be so easily discouraged.
As I have become a mother and Nanny to my three little munchkins it has been amazing to see things through their eyes. The wonder Eli experiences at the zoo when he sees his favorite animal the “Potamus.”
The Joy jasmine had when she first saw a mini couper car she screamed “MOM look at the tiny car, ooooh it’s so cute ooooooh MOM I want one.” And in the tradition of my uncle Richard and all the empty promises he made to buy me a pony when I was her age (still waiting on that one) I said “Neen will buy you a mini couper Jazzy”
Everyday Madi discovers something new and exciting. Today I played Beyonce’s Single Ladies and she discovered her hips.
I want to rediscover that wonder in me. What makes me exclaim “MOM LOOK!!!” What new discoveries will I make today?
Mathew 11:25 At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.