The good news is that modern technology has enabled Lunar Lamps to create flawless miniatures of the real moon. Of course, people haven’t always been able to give a physical representation of their love in the shape of the Earth’s moon. That symbolism makes a moon lamp a thoughtful and meaningful gift. To this day, people have a strong belief that the moon has a significant effect on their lives. For generations, partners declare their intentions to capture the moon in honor of their mate as a measure to show how far they will go to prove the depths of their feelings. “Live by the sun, love by the moon” is the adage most people follow. The moon is a symbol of romanticism and has been since the beginning of time. What better way to represent that bond than with a “real” moon you can hold in your hands? ‘To the moon and back’ implies a long-lasting, unbreakable bond that reaches both your loved one’s innermost heart and the edges of the galaxy. After all, the distance to the actual moon and back is almost 500,000 miles! How could you really measure love, especially unconditional love? But saying, ‘I love you to the moon and back’, even if it’s not original, is at least succinct.The phrase expresses how infinite love is between two people, whether it be a mother and her child or a romantic couple or two lifelong friends.
(You see where this is going…or rather not going.) ME: ‘I love you until infinity times infinity times infinity!’ Besides, it’s much quicker than the ‘I love you’ routine my daughter and I go through.ĭD: ‘I love you until infinity times infinity.’ I’m not in any way opposed to it, it’s simple, beautiful, and a way of describing a magical love between parents and their children. Adding ‘to the moon and back’ does add that extra that extra more-than-you-can-imagine element, even if every single other parent is using it and it’s really not that unique. Is it too easy just to say, ‘I love you?’ and then to hear, ‘I love you back?’ Well, yes and no. (The distance to the moon and back.)īut, for those of us who suffer from Baby/Mommy Brain, saying, ‘I love you to the moon and back,’ is much easier to remember than saying, ‘I love you 768,800 kilometers!’ which doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But, if we’re going to be technical about it (since I do watch The Big Bang Theory and therefore totally consider myself a physicist) what parents are really saying to their offspring is, ‘I love you 768,800 kilometers’. Then he lay down close by and whispered with a smile, ‘I love you to the moon and back.’ ‘That is very far.’ Big Nutbrown Hare settles Little Nutbrown Hare into his bed of leaves.
‘Oh, that’s far,’ said Big Nutbrown Hare. ‘I love you up to the moon,’ said Little Nutbrown Hare. Turns out, it’s quite sweet, and sends chills. It’s apparently one of the world’s best-loved picture books and an enchanting international bestseller…for decades. On any given day, thousands of adults are wishing their spouses a Happy Birthday or Happy Anniversary and ending their tributes of love with the phrase, ‘I love you to the moon and back.’īecause I had never heard it before I met my son’s father, I wondered where it came from, who started it, why parents just know to say this to their children, and was there a parenting class I missed?Īs an avid reader and a great proponent of reading to your children, I’m embarrassed, after doing some research, to discover that I’ve never read Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, the book that originated the phrase. I had never heard this phrase uttered in person before, until I heard my son’s father say it (and text it). Yes, it most definitely has a better ring to it than, ‘I love you to the backyard and back.’ Or, ‘I love you to the nearest intersection and back.’ Or, ‘I love you to the kitchen, where I’m going to get a snack and back.’ Every night, thousands of parents turn the lights off, the nightlights on, turn to their children and say the words, ‘I love you to the moon and back.’ It’s lovely.īut, where did it come from? Who invented that phrase? It’s as if all parents have unanimously agreed (Without me! WAH!) to this unwritten rule to start saying this ubiquitous quote from the minute your baby is placed in your arms, for the rest of your life.
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