OMG! The book "I'll love you forever"!

[Sonya]

DS got this at a book fair, he thought it was about a kid loving the potty! (he is in kindergarten)
I read this to him tonight, I couldn't even finish! DS wanted to know why I was crying. I don't think I can read this ever again!

"I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be."

 

[raysnkaysmom]

LOL..I cry at most of the kids books about a mother/child relationship... they just look at me with the 'oh geez, mom is crying again' look... lol

 

[Hillbeans]

That reminds me of the first time reading "I love you This Much"...was crying and couldn't get through it for months.

 

[Cool-Beans]

Yup, that's a sad one. I tried reading it to my boys, but none of them enjoyed it. They couldn't - it meant nothing to them.

I thought it was touching, though.

 

[ksjayhawks]

I read this to my son every night for years. We would sing the song together. When he was old enough he would read the last pages to me.

This book is part of every baby gift I give!

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

That's a classic around our house too. That Mom comes off as just a teensy bit stalkerish though, huh?

 

[IDoDis]

"And that baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew..."

Yep, it's a classic. My kids loved that book when they were younger. I saved it for DS's keepsake box, and I put "Goodnight Moon" in DD's keepsake box.

 

[ZPT1022]

I like that book and it makes me tear up. DH thinks it's creepy that she sneaks into the son's room and later, his house.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

That reminds me of the first time reading "I love you This Much"...was crying and couldn't get through it for months.

OMG me too..
and the one "You're all my favorites" on having more than one child.... I cant' read it aloud... lol

 

[Kathi OD]

This book has been around for a long, long time. One year our school had their book fair a week before Mother's Day. I saw it and told my 5th grade boys that if they wanted to get their mom's something special for Mother's Day, they should buy that book. Many of them did. If you've read the book, you can imagine their mother's reactions. I got lots of very nice notes the Monday following Mother's Day that year.

 

[koolaidmoms]

DH thinks it's creepy that she sneaks into the son's room and later, his house.

I think the same thing! The pictures in our book did not help any with this woman crawling across the floor in his bedroom. Then there was the picture at the end with the man carrying his mother and then sitting with her in his lap. It just screamed CREEPY!!!

 

[Cool-Beans]

That's a classic around our house too. That Mom comes off as just a teensy bit stalkerish though, huh?

A bit.

 

[Sonya]

That's a classic around our house too. That Mom comes off as just a teensy bit stalkerish though, huh?

Yeah, especially with that ladder! Don't you think a grown man would have woken up?

 

[matthew&haleysmom]

This is my all time favorite children's book.

 

[Judy from Boise]

I have never gotten through it! I become a sobbing puddle.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

I have never gotten through it! I become a sobbing puddle.

OT- everytime I see your name...I correctly pronounce Boy see... lol

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I have never gotten through it! I become a sobbing puddle.

I'm a big softie about that book too, but aving read it to my kids 4000 times I've come to have enough familiarity with it to lovingly tease just a bit.

My kids always liked Munsch's "I Have to Go" book too.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

I am a children's librarian, and that book just makes me bawl! I can't read through to the end. The photo on the front with the kid playing with the tiolet paper would make you believe it's a silly happy book, but nooooo! That book just drives home the point of growing old and losing the people you love. I don't want to be reminded of that.

I can't stand sad books - Desser the Best Cat Ever is another book that makes me bawl and I can't finish reading it.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

another story from my childhood that totally makes me cry was
'Koko and her kitten"... and "The Velveteen Rabbit"

 

[mookie]

My dd's teacher read this to the whole class of moms and their kids for the mothers day preschool party. I had the book at home, so I knew what was coming (in fact, the first time dh and I read it to our dd we were both sobbing hysterically!) but many of the moms in the class hadn't read it before.

Needless to say we had a bunch of blubbering mommies in that class with a bunch of 4 year olds wondering why their moms were crying during the story!