You truly are my sunshine babe.

Last Friday Big Bird participated in a talent show her school put on at the local high school and it was wonderful. I am not sure all the words that would truly sum up how wonderful it all was, I just know that there are lots of words one of them be pride.

I never in my life would have had the guts to stand up in front of a room full of strangers and talk let alone sing. But Big Bird did so and she did so with pride. As I her humble mother sat in the third row, fifth seat over from the right weeping like a small child lost in the local  K-Mart store.
But alas I do not believe I was alone.

As the sounds of a banjo's strings started to sweep in from some far off speakers and the fiddles started to play the soft notes of a song long forgotten by the youth of today Big Bird swayed back and forth. Her yellow dress with pink stitched flower trim moved with the music as her left foot tapped the stage to keep her beat. She opened her mouth and let her soft child voice carry the words to "you are my sunshine" across the stage deep into the seats and into what possibly might have been every single persons heart.

As a mother you hope and pray you teach your children to be strong. To love themselves and to hold their heads up high, but as person to see a small child do so is empowering and you feel a sense of pride not just because she is your Bird but because you know its possible, truly possible to see a miracle in its truest of forms.