A Story To Share..

I was browsing through some of my old stuff that I have kept since I was little. I found an old children's story in my tin box. I remembered I love the story so much that I wrote it down on pieces of paper and stapled it up so that I'll be able to read it again after I've returned the book to the library. The story is called "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch. I was unable to find the book in any of the bookstores till I might have forgotten all about it as I start to get busy with school. Since I found the story again, I think my only option now is to purchase it online.

Let me share with you the story by listening to the video of the author himself reading the story:

There was a mother who had a new baby.
And she picked it up and rock it back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth and sang:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always.
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be."

Well, that little baby, it grew.
It grew and it grew and it grew and it grew,
until it was two years old.
And it ran all around the house,
push over bookcases, took things off the wall,
and picked up it's mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet.
Sometimes the mother would say,
"This kid is driving me CRAAAZZZYYY!"

But at night time, when that little kid was asleep,
the mother would opened up the door to his room,
crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of the bed.
And if that two year old kid was really asleep,
she would picked it up and rock it back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth and sing:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always.
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be."

Well that two year old,
it grew and it grew and it grew and it grew.
It grew until it was nine years old
and it never want to come in for dinner, and when it did come in,
sometimes it would say bad words at the dinner table.
Sometimes the mum would say,
"This kid is driving me CRAAAZZZYYY!"

But at night time when that nine year old is asleep,
the mother would opened up the door to his room,
crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of the bed.
And if that kid was really asleep,
she would picked it up and rock it back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth and sing:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always.
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be."

Well that nine year old,
it grew and it grew and it grew.
It grew until it was a teenager.
And it had strange friends,
and it wore strange clothes and it listened to strange music.
Sometimes the mother would say,
"This kid is driving me CRAAAZZZYYY!"

But at night time, while that teenager was asleep,
the mother would opened up the door to his room,
crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of the bed.
And if that great big kid is really asleep,
she would picked him up and rock him back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth and sing:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always.
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be."

Well that teenager,
it grew and it grew and it grew,
It grew until it was a grown up man.
It left home and moved all the way to the other side of town.

But sometimes on dark nights, the mother would drive across town.
When she came to her son's house and if the lights were all out,
she would climbed up the bedroom window,
opened it up, crawled across the floor,
looked up over the side of the bed.
But if that great big man was really asleep,
she would picked him up and rock him back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth and sing:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always.
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be."

Well that mother,
she got older and older and older.
One day she calle dup her son and said,
"You'd better some and see me cos' I'm very old and sick."
The son came to see his mother
and the mother tried to sing the song and she said:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always..."

She was too old and sick to sing the song.
The son walked over to the mummy,
he picked her up and rock her back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth and sang:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always.
As long as I'm living,
My Mummy you'll be."

And it was late that night when the son got home
and he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs.
Then he went into the bedroom where his very new baby daughter was sleeping.
He looked at that little girl and he picked her up and rock her
back and forth, back and forth, back and forth and sang:

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always.
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be."

I do hope the story touches your heart as how it did to mine till now.

*wink*