Dear Noah, Today, and every day, I’m thankful for you. For this. If you only knew how simply being here, simply existing, has brought so much happiness to so many lives. Thank you for the laughs, the kisses, the love. Congratulations on making it through your first big family holiday. We’re all crazy, it’s true….
In real life, I’m 23 years old. Yes, I’m 23 and I’m a mother and I’m married and WHAT? I know, I get it all. the. time. “Wow you look so young to have a baby!” “Yeah, I’m, um, 23.” “Oh. Yeah…well…you are young to have a baby.” “Oh my gosh you have a baby?…
Yesterday my baby sister, my one and only sibling, my perpetual enemy and closest friend, turned 21. Twenty. One. Two two of us on MY 21st birthday. One day we were playing Little People, the next we were clawing and smacking and IS THAT MY SHIRT? TAKE OFF MY SHIRTing, and now we’re adults. Adults….
