Today, while you were in the bathtub creating your many stories and activities, I had a wish bubble up in me. That there could be a kind of camera or video camera that could take images/movies of our lives that you could then, later, walk into and relive in that moment. To turn around in …
Author Archives: jazh
desmond
You say a lot of amazing things on a daily basis. Some of them are just straight up funny. Many of them are wise beyond your four years. Some of them are both. Like yesterday: we were at the Sugar Sand Park playground around twilight. They had to close the playground soon after we got …
forever
Tonight, Dad started talking to you at bedtime about how we became a family. We’ve told you your story before, when you were even younger, and we keep talking about it with you because it is so important to us. We also want you to know a few things. The day you were born is …
four
Yesterday was your fourth birthday. When you become a parent, if you choose to become a parent, you’ll completely grasp Einstein’s relativity of time theory because time passes too quickly and also passes slowly when you are a parent. So yesterday felt like a day that came way too fast, and also made us realize …
joys
Your first nickname, given to you by Papa, was “joy boy”. Imagine the most amazing sound you’ve ever heard: then multiply it by a million. That’s the delight we have had since we first heard you laugh. A lot of kids are joyful. But one of your many gifts is how you both derive joy …
to begin
Time will pass and you won’t know any of the feelings we had about you when you were little. You’ll perhaps have shadow feelings – an echo of something across time that may reach you. But the only way you’ll know what we felt about you is if we put it down. So that’s why …
why this?
Just a mom, thinking about time and how it goes so fast, and I don’t want this boy of ours to grow up not knowing how much he was cherished and loved from the moment we knew him – and every single moment after.
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