Writer's Home Spa

[Teresa]

She pats my cheeks and eyelids with a pink ostrich feather, torn from the butt of a bird pen that has run out of ink.  

 

She puckers her moist pink lips then asks me to do the same as she applies "lipstick" with the dented tip of a plastic strawberry.  

 

Various swatches of patterned fabric are applied to my forehead, nose and chin like cool compresses to "clean away the day". 

 

She uses the orange lid of a juice cup as a "stamp" on my left forearm to identify me as "Client #146".  

 

Her small warm hands glide over my arms, long velvety strokes from wrists to shoulders and back again, "Does that feel good?"

 

The pure heaven of a green sparkly My Little Pony brush through my hair makes it difficult to stay awake, then she stops brushing, leans toward these words on my monitor and says, "Mommy, I see 'butt'." 

[Teresa]

Thank you everyone.  If any one of you lived with me you'd get the same treatment.  She loves to pamper and love.  @Stephen ~ I have a 22 and 24 year old who might point out the "Great Tits!"  All four keep me grounded. 

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

Oh the joys of having a little girl.  This is wonderful. 

[Stephen Buss]

Fantastic capture T - made me smile. I haven't had the benefit of a spa (not got the hair or complexion I suspect) but do get with the 'I see butt' comment. Unfortunately, my girls have got the embarrassment factor down to a tee now and readily shout 'Look Dad! Great Tits!' Every time we take a ramble down the canal towpath and only when the elderly are passing by.

[Peter McNiff]

Better than a movie. A moment worth jotting down, cornerstone of realism that movies rarely manage to capture no matter how hard they try.

[Vincent Michael]

Refreshing. Felt better ;-)

[Robert Crisman]

Great piece. A total lack of sentimentality which allows the beauty of the moment to shine.