In the distant future of 2016 when we have all turned to robots and stop naturally reproducing and raising our own children, someone will look back and ask, "What did being a human parent feel like"? My answer will be "Like your heart is breaking all the time".
Then I'll clarify that it's not in a bad way.....it's in the way that your heart feels so much love sometimes that it's going to burst. That it sometimes does feel a little sad: like in perfect moments when you also remember it's only THIS moment so enjoy it. Like the part when Calvin is telling knock knock jokes to his imaginary friend "Bobby", or telling us that we smell like hot dogs.
These are the deep thoughts I think as I peruse the Granimals $3 collection in WalMart because Calvin, just overnight, has grown right out of all of his pants. Because little boys sunsets and rainbows are perfect and beautiful but they only last for a short while. And hopefully when I'm a rusty robot rocking on my future porch, I'll remember how much fun it was to be his mom back in 2011.
1 comments:
I seriously just cried a little. Nicely said.
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