09.03.2026
Living through yet another separation with my toddler, and it's a storm
My favorite part of motherhood - feeling these ancient instinctive programs rise up inside me and do exactly the right thing by their own logic. Most vivid during birth, obviously, but they still catch up with me even now.
The toddler's gotten loud and annoying, and I want with everything in me to just send him off to the other room and let him do whatever he wants in there
When I do manage to shoo him out - he really does rustle around and get busy with his own thing! The whole process isn't easy for me at all, but it's so beautiful. I feel like an ancient she-wolf, shoving her cubs out of the den to go discover the world