Thursday, November 14, 2013

Farrahisms

You may have noticed by now that our 4 year old daughter Farrah is a wonderful distraction from our sadness.  She has always been a special girl, but I'm convinced now that she is part of God's plan to heal us.  You know those annoying people that always post the funny things their kid says?  Guilty as charged.  I can't help it.  She is a constant source of joy and laughter in our house.  She has always been known for her Farrahisms, and I notice them even more so now than ever.  I appreciate the way she chooses to say things when before I never paid attention.  Every pop of her hip, every scrunchy face, every mispronunciation is something I want to hold onto.  It's what makes Farrah, Farrah.  It's what brings us joy in our sorrow.
So here are some of my favorite Farrahisms from the past couple of weeks. 











  • A few days after Kellen passed we had family visiting and Farrah's aunt gave her some chocolate gold coins.  Farrah has one of the biggest sweet tooths I know.  I wonder why that is?  :)  So one night we were getting ready for bed and I couldn't find Farrah.  As you remember from my previous post I'm much more paranoid about Farrah now so I went into an instant panic.  I was calling for her and running through the house and couldn't find her.  I went into our room and saw a small lump on our bed under the blankets but usually when she hides under the covers you can see her moving around.  I lifted up the blanket just to be sure and there she was with her gold coins eating them as quietly and as still as she could.  
  • Follow up to the gold coin thing.  This morning my husband discovered she had a secret stash of her gold coins in a drawer in her room.  He brought it out to show me and all that was left was a bunch of wrappers and one coin that was uneaten.  I tried to give her "the look" and she just smiled at me and said "Yeah mom, see.... I was saving this coin for after my dinner, isn't that great?"
  • At dinner a couple nights ago Farrah decided to bring up the topic of us having another baby.  Here's how the conversation went... Farrah: "Mommy and Daddy can you please get married again so you can have another baby?" Abe: "Farrah, Mommy and Daddy are already married so we don't have to get married again to have another baby." Farrah with a confused look on her face: "Oh well then how do you have another baby?" Abe stares at her for a minute: "Ok sweetie we can get married again."  #notreadyforthatconversation
  • At such a young age she's very aware of other people's emotions and she wants to fix things when she sees people are sad.  I was reading her a new children's book we got her that explains death and what it means and I started crying as I was reading it to her.  She saw I was crying, touched my cheek and told me I didn't have to be sad.  She has such a great heart.  She holds it together much better than we ever could.
 
  • She told us that dancing and singing makes her happy when she's sad so there's been a lot more of that lately.  You can tell she is really feeling it when she dances.  The faces she makes are hilarious.  She gets lost in the music.  We told her that at the church where we were having Kellen's celebration there was a stage where people were going to talk so when we first got there the first thing she asked was "Where's the stage?"  She was dancing pretty much the whole time in the background of everyone's speeches and I was totally ok with that. 
  • And probably my most favorite moment of Farrah I've ever had since she was born was something that happened at Kellen's graveside service.  She has been sitting there quietly as our Pastor was speaking and at the end he said "Let's pray."  Before he could speak Farrah just put her little hands together and started praying out loud.  We all stayed quiet and listened.  She thanked God for all that we have.  She prayed for us who were sad to be happy.  She was happy that Kellen was in heaven.  Amen.


1 comment:

  1. I loved seeing Farrah dance and it was so much sweeter after you explained what the dancing meant to her. God is working through your sweet daughter to help bring healing and peace. She is your angel!

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