The Real Reason To Wear Red Lipstick

Illustration, Garance Doré.

Yesterday morning, I saved the two tissues I had used to blot my lipstick and tucked them into the kids' lunches.  Liv saw me do it and said, "I'm gonna keep it all day for whenever I miss you and I need a kiss."

By the time Cody came out, we'd moved onto something else, so he didn't know there was anything extra in his lunchbox.

When I came home last night, I asked: "Did you find anything special in your lunch?"

"A kiss!" he shouted.

"We found a kiss!" Liv added.

"Did it make you smile?" I asked.

Cody walked up to me and beamed with love. "I slept with it all through nap."