I have to hand it to that purple dinosaur. Tonight, as I was cleaning out a bathroom closet tossing crusted toothpaste and throwing out empty cans of hairspray, my three-year-old runs in and says “He’s singing It! He’s singing It!” I drop everything and follow him into my bedroom just in time to dance to Barney singing “I Love You." As I hold him, he says “Sing it loud Mommy." We rock back and forth and hug and kiss on cue as the lyrics say “and a great big hug and a kiss from me to you.” We sing in unison, “won’t you say you love me too.”

So while in a board meeting, when I am unable to get the grating melody out of my brain, I’ll remember this moment and say a prayer of thanks for the big purple dinosaur who’s not afraid to say “I love you."

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