Wanted to share this sweet email from a reader — Jan.
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Becky,
I wanted to share a little tale today about toilet paper, or TP for short. 
I just finished watching your appearance on the Motherhood Matters show the day before and loved the comments about blessings and offerings we share throughout our day to our children. I also thought about our children’s offerings of love to us and I thought I would share a tale about a simple stack of TP and the offering amongst it from my 5-year-old son Oliver.
I was busy putting things away from Costco and trying to get dinner started when I heard Oliver call me from the bathroom. It is his job to put away the TP. As I entered the bathroom I could see that he had made one of his famous TP towers that he likes to do before he puts it away. I told him how awesome it was, and it was then that I noticed my little grapevine heart that I have in the bathroom nestled amongst the TP tower.
I kind of chuckled at this and wondered why he would put that there. I said, “Ollie, what’s with the heart buddy?” He smiled the biggest smile Becky and said, “Mommy, its my heart of love tower for you.”
A simple TP tower was his testament of love for me. I think there is nothing more “everyday” than TP, but to have it built into a castle of love by a 5 year old little man, illuminates that love is all around us everyday, even in the bathroom. Thank you for reminding me of this.
Warm regards from my TP tower.
Jan Davis
British Columbia, Canada
Tags: everyday love, toilet paper
OMG this is the BEST stuff. What a little sweetie:) Gosh my heart strings have been tugged. What a special Momma, that little guy loves you. Thanks SO much for sharing!!!!!
HOW sweet! Thanks, Jan, for sharing this everyday moment!
LOVE THIS!!!!!!!
Ahhhhh
That brought tears to my eyes… thank you for sharing!
Lucky You! All this from a simple roll(s) of TP!
Wow. I have tears running down my face. So very sweet.
I am actually crying. How completely adorable little boys can be.
Awww, what an incredibly sweet story! Aren’t boys the best?! Stories like this is why many of scrapbook to capture these precious memories of our everyday life. Thanks for sharing your story.
that’s the sweetest little thing. don’t forget to treasure these incredible moments. xxx
Melting…
OMG I am glad that I am not the only one with tears! I love it and soo perfectly written story!
All I can say is Ahhhhhh…. and wipe a tear. My boys are starting to get older (7 & 9) and little things like this just make me MUSH.
A very neat story!!
That is just so beautiful.
what a blessing in the little things in life that make us smile…i will take the time to notice and respond and observe those little things a little bit more today and forever!! Sweet
It is always the little things that get us…how precious was that.
Read a great paragraph in a book last night and immediately thought of you and your mission to get people to remember the every day things in our lives.
Book – Spider Web by Earlene Fowler
Paragraph p. 12-13 – “This whole memory fair had started me thinking about my scattered photographs and memorabilia. I had become interested enough in scrapbooking to start going through them, dividing and organizing pictures by year. What a task it was turning out to be. What I was learning was I almost always took too many photos of the same thing and not enough of things that mattered, that is, things that were now gone. Of course, how was I to know back then that they’d disappear? I wished I had more photos of Jack and me when we were teenagers, more photos of Gabe and me when we were dating or of my favorite jeans in high school, the ones I spent hours embroidering. I wished there were photos of Jack’s work boots, of his hands, of the first calf I helped deliver, the first meal I ever cooked for Jack and for Gabe. How I longed for a close-up of my mother’s hands, her earlobes, her feet. I sometimes stared at my own bare feet and wondered if my toes looked like hers.”
Perfection…
So, so adorable