Sparkles.

May is not my best month. It is the end of school in addition to lots of holidays, birthdays and anniversaries and the beginning of spring sports. My head spins most of the month just trying to keep track of it all. I try to be a good mom, honest I do, but there are times that I am pretty short on patience and pretty highly overwhelmed.

It was with that in mind that I exploded after the 8 zillionth time of being followed around hearing "mom. mom. mom. mom." I announced (as my mother did on occasion when I was growing up) that I have changed my name! That is it, no more mom! They started calling me Rachel, but that didn't work either. So, Molly decided she would name me. She decided I looked like a Sparkles. She proceeded to call me Sparkles all day yesterday and a portion of today as well.

Sparkles is such a pleasant name, even if it does sound like a My Little Pony. She must think of me as a sparkling gem. The jewel of her eye. A beautiful person who radiates from the inside out.

Then I started to wonder, did she mean sparkles like a sparkler? A sparkler is all hot and fiery and it blows off sparks every which way? Because if that is the case, she is not only smart and creative, but very astute! Sparkles fits me to a tee in the month of May!