Saturday, 17 April 2010

• No Charge

  
  

  I read this yesterday and didn't want to wait until Mother's Day to post it!
  
  My little boy came into the kitchen this evening
  While I was fixing supper
  And he handed me a piece of paper he'd been writing on
  And after wiping my hands on my apron
  I read it - and this is what it said:
  
  For mowing the yard - five dollars
  And for making my own bed this week - one dollar
  And for going to the store - fifty cents
  And playing with little brother, while you went shopping - twenty-five cents
  Taking out the trash - one dollar
  Getting a good report card - five dollars
  And for raking the yard - two dollars
  Total owed - fourteen seventy-five.
  
  Well, I looked at I'm standing there expectantly
  And a thousand memories flashed through my mind
  So I picked up the pen, turning the paper over,
  This is what I wrote:
  
  For nine months I carried you growing inside me - NO CHARGE
  For the nights I've sat up with you, doctored you, prayed for you - NO CHARGE
  For the time and the tears and the cost through the years, there's NO CHARGE
  For the nights filled with dread and the worries ahead - NO CHARGE
  For advice and the knowledge and the cost of your college - NO CHARGE
  For the toys, food and clothes and for wiping your nose - there's NO CHARGE
  When you add it all up, the full cost of my love, is - NO CHARGE.
  
  Well, when he finished reading
  He had great big old tears in his eyes
  And he looked up at me and he said,
  "Mama, I sure do love you."
  Then he took the pen,
  And in great big letters
  He wrote: "PAID IN FULL
  
  When you add it all up, the cost of real love is - NO CHARGE
  
  

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