Sparky Eye Smilers and Sunbeam Faces

Hello there ma petite enfant,

Tonight I just wanted to share a few short passages out of some of my very favorite childhood books! And finding these quotes in one of my quote books made me go digging in your library to find both books so I could show off your library and of course these unforgettable and undeniably amazing little books.

And in picking them up I was overcome with a tremendous desire to read them both again. I'll give you a review when I do. But in the meantime, I just wanted to pass this along because I think it's rather self-explanatory.

Here's the cover of Danny, one of my all time favorite books that I now can't wait to read again and certainly I can't wait to read it to you and with you. And that's a picture of Danny's sparky dad. Here's the passage.

"You might think, if you didn't know him well, that he was a stern and serious man. He wasn't. He was actually a wildly funny person. What made him appear so serious was the fact that he never smiled with his mouth. He did it all with his eyes. He had brilliant blue eyes and when he thought of something funny his eyes would flash and if you looked carefully, you could actually see a tiny little golden spark dancing in the middle of each eye. But the mouth never moved.
    I was glad my father was an eye smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth smile is different. You can fake a mouth smile any time you want simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that real mouth-smile always has an eye smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you with his mouth his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony."

 

And last but certainly not least I wanted to share this last tidbit with you from the very last page of Danny, The Champion on the World. I can remember being like 9 or 10 reading this book, crying, laughing, devouring the book and then reading this at the end and being so touched by it, that is the sole reason that book stuck with me til this day.

I pray to Jehovah that you always feel twinkly so that your eyes are always smiling, that your face is always shining with goodness and may He give me all I need to be the sparkiest parent you could have so that one day about 65 years from now (j/k) you may be the very same thing in turn . I love you mamin. xoxoo