Yesterday...

Yesterday was the first time that i had taken Miranda out since her eye started to bleed earlier this week... more to her request than anything since she didn't like the look of her eye and thought that everyone would laugh at her.
It is very noticable... its very red from the blood and yellow from the pigmentation where some of the blood from earlier bleeding is healing. She is right... it doesn't look nice... though... as her mama.. her eyes to me... are still as beautiful as ever.
She knew that since she was not going to preschool (because of her cold) that she would have to go shopping with me... though, where i thought there would be a fight of wills trying to convince her that it would be okay, much to my amazement she donned on a pair of sunglasses (that daddy bought her last sunday) and said she was fine and ready to go... while her eye was still noticable beneath the sunglasses... to her... they were the magic that she needed to go out...
i watched people yesterday... some looked at her in curiosity... others just smiled at her cheeriness and seemed to ignore the very sore looking eye... out of all the people we passed, and we would have had to have passed hundreds yesterday, only a handful noticably... rudely... stared.
The thing that really made me smile was a little boy in the bank no more than 5 who willingly approached miranda and started talking to her... not once did he ask what was wrong with her eye or seemed to care in the slightest that she looked different than him.

why is it that small children seem to have this ability to just accept everyone ... no matter their race, features or disability?
When is it that most change and allow the very thing that makes us all individual, to divide us?

Hopefully before long my sweet beautiful girl will be showing those gorgeous dark blue eyes to the world proudly again.


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34 sleeps to go