There's Always Something

With Christmas coming up I've been re-filled with anticipation and eagerness.  It's the first year that I feel like both of our daughters are old enough to really be excited.  Last year Meimei was still too young to understand why everyone was so excited.  She was excited, yes.  But Meimei gets excited because her plate is blue and today her favorite color is blue, and so this year she's really excited that she gets to celebrate Jesus.   I watch the world turn through her big (big for an Asian, anyway), brown eyes and wonder what she sees sometimes that I don't.   Her world is always open and full of light and laughing.  There's always fun to be had, something new to try, or in her case, taste.  So far, in the last week, she's tasted: the car window, her chair, the table, the bathtub, the soap (she didn't like that one), and her pillow.  If it weren't for the fact she tells me that she is deliberately wanting to know how they taste, I'd ...