MY PRINCESSA

I'm living another type of Christian love story right now. My daughter Jennifer and her two children are visiting from their home in San Juan. When my two-year-old little granddaughter Claudia throws her arms around my neck then looks at me with her sparkling eyes, I just melt. When my five-month-old grandson Lorenzo gives me one of his ear-to-ear-grins-with-dimples-on-both-sides, my heart turns a flip-flop. Today at Target, Claudia shouted, "Princessa, Nana, princessa," when we came to the pink princess dress aisle. So naturally I had to buy her one. She's strutted around the house with it on, looking like...well, a princess. No prettier, with her light brown curls and dark-fringed eyes and rosy cheeks and prissy ways.

Ah, love...

Thank You, God, for Your blessings on me.