- EVERYONE SLEPT FOR THE ENTIRE NIGHT WITHOUT WAKING UP ONCE PRAISE THE LORD.
- Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.
- Someone shouting that they need to pee in the middle of gridlock traffic three minutes after we pull away from the gas station. Now I know how Mom felt on road trips with us.
- I can barely look at these exhibits. My skin crawls, my head swims.
- The hardest thing about parenting isn’t sleep loss or barf. It’s sticking to my guns when I’d rather pretend I didn’t see/hear the consequence-reaping thing I just saw/heard.
- We each thought the other didn’t want to be friends anymore. But we’re not dead yet. There’s still time.
- Trying to compose a meal plan on a tight budget for one endurance athlete in training, one mostly-sedentary writer, and one toddler feels like the kind of thing they should’ve taught us in home ec. Maybe algebra.
- The headache and squinting tells me I’m clenching my jaw subconsciously all day again. Where am I secreting away stress beneath the waves of peace?
- Connection. Joy. Truth.
- Do not despise these small beginnings.
