LOVE IS...

Love is...with only 30 minutes left to get into the zoo, your dad dropping everything to take you there after waking up from your afternoon nap, so your mom can finish her tax preparations. Everything being the NCAA Midwest Regional playoff basketball game between Kansas and North Carolina with one quarter left and a 3 point difference.  Love is...your mom texting him 5 minute updates on said game. 

LOVE IS...

Love is...letting you ride the carousel multiple times in a row, even though your mom easily gets motion sickness with the littlest things, like reading in the car or riding a carousel. 

LOVE IS...

Love is...spending  twenty minutes on a plane peeling the skin off grapes for you because that's how you like to eat grapes.  Skinless. 

LOVE IS...

Love is...letting you eat the tops off all the broccoli and me eating your leftover stems.  I like broccoli tops and so do you. 

LOVE IS...

Love is...eating the crusted part of a sandwich and letting you eat the middle.  I don't like bread crust and neither do you.