There are some memories that stay so vibrant in your mind that you can almost relive them when you close your eyes. That is how the day you arrived is for me. I’d been having miserable sleeps for over a week, with Braxton Hicks contractions and discomfort keeping me up. Just ten days prior, the… Continue reading and now you are four
From time to time, you walk up from your teenage lair (aka the basement) and I have to blink again to recognize and remember that the little boy you’ll always be to me is far closer to being a man than the baby I love so much.
I’m sure some people will call this “lazy” and that’s fine. I call it preserving energy.
The Google Home timer is going off as I fire the dishcloth into the sink and say “Stop,” before dimming the kitchen light and walking away. The floor could still use a good sweep but my five-minute cleaning window is over and the floor will keep. The crumbs will still be there when I have… Continue reading timers + letting go
As I tried to explain the grey zone, it occurred to me that learning the little, and often nuanced things in life can sometimes be the hardest. The unspoken rules. The “best practices”. The things we might only learn the hard way when something has blown up in our face.
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