When my six year old daughter came home from school proudly holding a drawing of our family, I expected the usual stick figures, bright colors, and oversized smiles. Instead, she pointed to a small boy she had carefully added beside me and said, “This is my new little brother.” We do not have another child, and I was not pregnant.
I laughed at first, assuming it was one of those imaginative moments children have, but her expression was serious and peaceful. I asked her what she meant, and she simply smiled and said, “He is coming soon. I feel it.” There was something about her confidence that stopped me in my tracks. Kids say strange things all the time, yet this felt different, almost as if she were sharing information rather than making it up.
