Just yesterday, two of Blythe’s cousins were over, and she spotted one of her neighbor friends while she was playing. She RAN over to one of her cousins and started saying something like “come look, my friend! that is my friend! let me show you my friend” pointing over at the neighbor. And it was just a sweet and normal moment, but also one of those ones that makes me want to cry – because I know that some day someone or something will temper her excitement, or put her down or try to make her feel stupid when she is just expressing something like that excited vulnerability of trying to make a connection with her cousin and/or this neighbor friend….does that make sense? I just saw the future of all of that pain and hurt that can enter her life from a relational point of view….and then I wanted to shield her from public interaction forever, for a nanosecond. lol.

So anyway, yes. I also focused on the elements from the book and parenting about owning up to mistakes (I am short tempered with her too much and can find myself beginning to yell lately) or noticing when my own issues are reflected through emerging issues of hers (like the author’s daughter breaking down about being tardy to school). I enjoy just going back to that book and running through bookmarked items. And Simplicity Parenting, too! Although in reality, I think I absorb lots of the information and then have a total failure to execute a lot of it.

But I am digressing, and writing a novel of a comment. And it’s late-ish and I may very well be making zero sense