2 MILKS

Every morning...for well over 2 years now...my trusty sidekick, Boden, has joined me for (very) early morning devotions

and prayer over coffee. He sits by my side or lays on my lap and in general is just happy to be with Mommy.

 

Over the course of the years, he's had varying wishes from nursing in the earlier days to yogurt with honey for a while.
There was an apple phase, banana stint, and orange juice was the request of choice last. But, lately, only "2 milks" will suffice.

 

 

When eggnog was readily in our fridge this past month, I once poured him half whole milk/half eggnog and warmed it in a coffee mug like mine. The eggnog is gone now and Christmas has past, but Boden's still satisfied with rice milk, almond milk, whatever the 2nd milk I choose...just so long as there are 2 milks warm in his mug he's content. Though it took me a while to figure out what he meant by "2 milks" (that he was remembering his eggnog/milk-in-a-glass-mug morning), once I did, he was set!

 

A variety of choices available in plentiful supply year round, along with his whole milk, of course, my little companion joins me
each dawn. He pokes his 2 doughy fingers toward me (focusing hard to make 2) and he asks for his "glasses with 2 milks".
He snuggles up next to me in sheer comfort, milk mustache aglow...my heart too.

I'll forever savor the memory of my little buddy with our mugs and the Lord in the morning...
mine with my coffee and his with his favorite 2 milks.

 

 "And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark,
[Jesus] departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed."
Mark 1:35