Coral Pink

Mom is Coral Pink by all definitions.

     She buys scarves and jewelry and jackets in Coral Pink and paints her nails to match. It's the color of her phone case and her purse and accents around the house. She wakes up before the Coral Pink sunrise just to have breakfast with me before seminary. She spends her Coral Pink sunsets making dinner for the kids and driving us where we need to go.

     Coral Pink is the color of the books she would read out loud to us as kids and it's the color of piano practicing and the color of picnics in the backyard. It's the color of her tearing up and laughing so hard she cries even more. Coral Pink is the color of a clean house and singing around the piano and themes for every special day. It's the color of reading books out loud during long drives and perfectly planned trips. Coral Pink is the color of "nifty excursions" and scrapbooks and family game nights. It's long talks about important things and her helping us on our homework every day and it's the color of patience and perfect gift giving.

     Coral Pink is the color of pink milk and heart-shaped toast on Valentine's Day morning, gifts for her kids and sappy notes to her husband. It's the color that could go on and on and on until it fills up the whole sky. It's thousands of memories and chocolate and a love that cannot be expressed in words, only in colors like Coral Pink.

Happy Valentine's Day Mom