Another warm afternoon.  Pearl played with her friends at the park after school and had a rainbow-sprinkled vanilla ice cream cone from the annoyingly prompt ice cream truck that pulls up in front of the park just as we’re leaving — EVERY TIME.  On the way home, Pearl found a dandelion poking through the fence of a condemned property (well, it should be condemned if it’s not already).  She pulled it out and said she would blow the seeds out while making a wish.  Her “wish” was:  “I love my mommy.”  Things like that add fuel to my engine.  Yes, I’ll keep her.

*This picture is not mine.  From Microsoft Office Clipart.  But dandelions are dandelions…My picture would have looked the same, but with more trash in the background.