Today the best thing that happened to me was that I finally got to hold sweet Isabel. She knows me well, she sees me several times a week. She often reaches out to me as if to hug me but stays stuck to her mommy (my friend April).

Well, today at rehearsal for Habibi Dancers, April brought the baby, and Sally brought her baby, and I sat on the floor with them all. And Isabel leaned up against me when she was still leaning on her mom also. Next thing you know, she had crawled up on my lap and was smiling at mommy. Mommy even got to dance a little today without holding her sweet one. I know this was a treat for all three of us!

There is nothing like holding a child you know and love. It has been a long time since I’ve known a child well enough to want this. I don’t have any interest in holding a child I barely know. Yet I can not tell you how delighted I was to hold this baby for maybe ten minutes today.

I have said before, that a happy child is definitely a work of art. This child is a masterpiece.