Our daughter turned 9 yesterday and has started wearing a bra. She's still my little girl in so many ways, but I know the time will come when we too are experiencing it. I am not looking forward to it at all.

Our oldest son turned 12 on election day and has hairy legs already. Like Lilith, he grew up when we blinked. And when I say grew up...I mean grew UP. He's 5'10 and more closely resembles a high schooler than most of the high school kids in town. I'm not ready for him to be a teenager, and it seems he already is.

Our youngest will be 7 in a few months. Luckily he's not stingy with the hugs because we're gonna need them.



Damn.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.