I Didn't Just Wake Up This Morning With A Craving
I Write To Understand. I Write To Stop Time
Last week, as I was driving with Wee One, she heard me smack at a small bug that had flown into the car. She asked why, and I told her I was trying to kill an insect. She suggested that I shouldn’t because bats eat insects. I said it was a great idea and we should get a bat in the car to get the bug. She said, “Mom. Bats are nocturnal.”
Because duh.
Today is an experiment.
Continue reading “The Road to Independence Isn’t a Road”Wee One has inadvertently created something for us that I will cherish forever, and she might too, if we carry it on that long.
(Caution: The following is a slightly hyperbolic announcement of Wee One’s genius. Only slightly.)
Wee One got a big girl bed this weekend, a little unexpectedly, and I was having a hard time with it. Then tonight happened.
On the day after Halloween, Wee One’s preschool had a little festival set up for them, including a parade where they showed off their costumes.
This is the end of my fourth summer with Wee One. She’s growing up. Just like everyone promised, it happened too fast and did not come soon enough.
A memory I wish to save about putting Wee One to bed on night.
The tag line on this blog is “I write to stop time,” and as I get older, I find I want to stop time more and more. (Actually, I don’t know if that’s true. There were moments I loved and wanted to hold onto when I was younger. Of course, I destroyed all my journals from before the accident and those are the memories I don’t have.)
I have to begin letting go.
Right now, Wee One is in a phase when she tells me, “You need me!” which means, “I need you,” or “I want you here with me.”
I used to say that to my mom. I would say, “I wanna hold you.”
One day while E.C. was planning a small baby caper
She felt something odd in her diaper di diaper.
I Didn't Just Wake Up This Morning With A Craving 