The Asparagus Bracelet

We eat a lot of asparagus around here. A lot. Like at least twice a week so I almost always have some in the fridge. 

One night several months ago, I was cooking some for supper and had taken the rubber bands off of the bundle and left them lying on the counter. Livy walked in, picked one up, and asked what it was. 

Drew, seizing the opportunity to earn some cool dad points, said, "It's a special bracelet, Liv, and I bought it just for you!"

Her eyes grew huge and from the look on her face you would've thought he told her it was diamond encrusted and made by a thousand tiny fairies. She instantly fell in love with it. She said something to the effect of I love it, Daddy! I'll never take it off! 

That Daddy. He can do no wrong. 

And she's tried her best to keep that promise. She wore it in her ballet recital, in a photoshoot we did with a friend, to the lake, the beach, VBS... The only time she doesn't wear it is when it breaks and we have to buy more asparagus to replace it. She lost it once at Pappy and Annie's house and I heard there were lots of tears involved until she found it again. 

So this morning for the first day of kindergarten I rhetorically asked if she was going to wear her bracelet to school. She told me that she had to wear it so she could look down at it and think of Dad. 

That girl is something else! And it definitely makes her daddy feel pretty special.