
This is a long post, and I don’t care. I had to get this all down in case I ever forget, I can read this and remember what a great time it is in my life and how good it feels to love someone so much and be so affected by someone who didn’t exist for the first decades of my life, but who has influenced it more since than everyone else who came before put together, and almost everyone who will come after him. I actually started writing it a month or so ago, but Christmas and different things going on in my life made me want to put it up now and finish it. So here it is.
I just started writing and more and more came. Its mostly all true. I don’t know if it will mean anything to anyone else, but its pretty much all that matters to me these days. Everything I do hinges on this single fact: I have a little boy to watch out for now. And I do so with an alarming ease.
I know you moms out there are going to say “Wait until 2 1/2” or “Wait until he’s 3” or whatever, but for the last year I’ve been dealing with a 16-27 month old, and I have got to say, the terrible twos are not that terrible. Or am I just that good? I dunno, you tell me:
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