Oh! the joys of being a Mom! Yesterday, Nan and I were playing at home on a day off from school, due to severe snow. She looked at me (quoting her word-to-word) and said “Aai, you look like Belle”. (That is Beauty from ‘Beauty and the Beast’.) Heh! I was so thrilled. It must be true then. Children think their mother is the most beautiful person in the world!
I remember, we had a lesson in school about a Russian girl, who got lost in the fields. When people ask her to describe her mother, she said “My mother is the most beautiful woman in the world”. So they set off on a hunt to find the girl’s mother. They returned back with no success. After a while, a stout woman with a muddy dress and two front teeth missing arrived at the scene. field. She rushed to the little girl and picked her up. The little girl hugged her with equal affection, proudly pointed to her and said “Mom”. Quite a lesson for all of us – Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
