{"id":189,"date":"2005-10-01T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=189"},"modified":"2005-10-01T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T01:52:00","slug":"comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2005\/10\/01\/comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night Shannon and I were in my room watching telly. She was wrapped up in her huge blanket fighting a cold. Her throat bothered her and she was stuffy – generally not feeling well. Out of the blue she got up and plopped down by my feet laying her head on my knee.<\/p>\n

This isn’t someting she does very often so I asked if she was all right. I figured she was feeling pretty icky. What she said in reply just made me melt \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

She said, “Your presence is comforting.”<\/p>\n

“My presence?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. I feel better when I’m near you. In England one night you were working downstairs and I had cut my finger on something. When I sat on your bed, my finger didn’t hurt at all and when I sat on my bed, it did.”<\/p>\n

This was such a lovely, out-of-the-blue comment from her that I’m still thinking about it a few days later and I wanted to write it down. <\/p>\n

I love my kid \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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