So I was standing in my closet, getting dressed for the day.
I pulled on my favorite pair of jeans and noticed they were tight. Like too tight to button. And naturally I convinced myself that I couldn’t button them because they had just been washed. You know, cuz jeans totally shrink when you dry them. [...]
It should be obvious by now that I’m pretty smitten with the younger man in my life. We have what I would call a normal mother/son relationship–whatever that means.
He adores me like no other person on the planet. And I’m totally OK with that. He will, at any given moment in the day, come [...]
*I FEEL I MUST WARN YOU. THIS ISN’T MY USUAL KIND OF POST. THIS IS THE STORY OF ETHAN. AND YOU WON’T LAUGH. IN FACT YOU MAY CRY–I DID WHEN I WROTE IT. SO, FEEL FREE TO SKIP IT. I’LL BE FUNNY TOMORROW.*
Four.
That’s how old Ethan is today. My youngest child, my only son. Four.
And [...]