After I had finished reading the book, I closed it and set it on the night stand. We snuggled closer together and each took a turn telling a story. Hers, of course was about mommy and Aniyah. After the stories had been told we made plans for the next day.
She told me that she wanted to paint. That is something she does every time she stays, just after her pancake.
But then she told me she wanted to make a heart for her mommy and baby sister and daddy, and oh, for gumps too. 
I told her I would show her how to cut a heart out of paper and she said she would like that. She wanted to draw a picture on each heart and write something. I told her I thought that would be sweet.
“What do you want to draw?” I asked her.
“I want to make gumps and daddy a tractor.”
“Oh, and what about mommy?”
“I just want to draw a picture for mommy.”
And we drifted off.
So . . . after the dishes were cleared away and the paint put up. We started on our hearts, and true to her word, she did exactly what she said she was going to do.
Then, she asked me if I would write on the back of her mommy’s card what she would tell me. And as she spoke, I wrote her words:
“I love you Aniyah, and I love you so much mommy. I love you up the the moon and sky. I love you more than Ruby Slippers. Aria”
THAT is very much, for you see . . .
Aria ALWAYS has a pair of Ruby Slippers.
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” And He laid His hands on them and departed from there. Matthew 19:14-15
The Portion of my Inheritance 
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