Our Family Journey

Maria's new favorite book to read is "Love you forever". It is a sweet book, but I can't make it through the entire book without crying...and it's not that long!! She wants to read it every night and every night I end up crying!!


Here's the first page:

A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth and while she held hime, she sang:
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves. He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took his mothers watch and flushed it down the toilet. Sometimes his mother would say, This kid is driving me crazy!!

But at night time, when that two year old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed and if he was really asleep she picked him and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:
I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

Then the story moves on to how the kid grows to be a 9 year old who never want to take a bath, and a teenager who wears weird clothes, but she always sneaks into his room and rocks him and sings the song. Then he is older and moves across town, but sometimes she still gets into her car and sneaks into his house and if he's really asleep she rocks him and sings the same song.

Then the mother is old and she calls the son and she sings the song but she can't finish because she is so sick. (OK..this is where I usually have to stop because I can't read anymore because I'm crying so much!!. Dave thinks I'm depressed because I cry every night...I'm not...I just can not read this book without bawling.)

Then the son picks up his mother and rocks her and sings to her.
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
my Mommy you'll be.

The son goes home and picks up his new baby daughter and sings the song to her.

I've never actually made it to the end of the book. I mean I've read it, but I can't read it to Maria without crying!! Maria usually like to start over about the point the boy grows into a man, because she wants to see the baby at the beginning of the book, which is OK with me because that's about where I start to choke up. She hasn't figured out there's a baby at the end of the story too.

It will be quite the accomplishment when I can actually read the story from cover to cover without crying!!

It's a cute book and I highly recommend it if you need to clear your tear ducts nightly!!