Mommy's Big Girl (Flash-Forward)

"Good morning, my little munchkin" I greeted my peacefully-sleeping daughter Heavenly-Miracle, "Let's get ready for school". "Good morning mommy" she replied after waking up, rubbing her eyes, and yawning. She then gets up, makes her own bed (the way her grandmother taught her how), and heads straight for the tub. While she gets her day started, I decided to cook some shrimp and grits for both of us. Ten minutes later: she walks into the kitchen, sits at the table, and begans singing one of my favorite songs from back in my day. "Oh girl. One more chance with you again. I will not let it go . . . ooh please, give me just one more chance for love, love, love, love!" I lowered my eyebrows and turned all the way around. "I can't believe what my ears are listening to right now. My girl can sing . . . better than her mother at that!" ". . . I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know your name. Come on talk to me baby, come on and talk to me baby. You see I wanna know, you better tell me your name baby" she sang (finishing the song off, looking at me, and showing all sixteen pretties). "(smiling): If anybody ask where you learned how to sing like that, what're you going to tell them?" I asked while fixing our food and setting the table. "My maa-ma" she said. "That's right" i replied. After having our daily morning conversation, we headed out the door. Today is the day that my big girl will entering North Vista Elementary School as a third grader. I could tell how excited she was because she's been studying all summer long and didn't really want to play outside. Also, that's all she's been talking about. Minutes later, I pulled into the school parking lot and attempted to get out and walk her inside. "I'm a big girl now, you don't have to walk me inside if you don't want to" Heavenly told me. She was right. My six year old is growing up. "Well Mommy has to go to work okay?" I told her. "Okay . . ." she replies, "Are you coming back to get me?" she asked. "Of course baby girl" I replied, "Mommy will always come back for you".