Two weeks with Barbara Cheeseburger, eight years with Pretty Baby! One baby is so young. The other baby is so old.

Love is absolutely wild. When I adopted old baby I told myself (and many others!) that I had learned my lesson and would approach this round differently; that I would love her and look after her, but in a way that protected my heart and mind from the entirely predicable, horrible ending. But that is just not how love works. Not how life works.

I think the fear has been that all of the softness in my life was slipping away. It’s not. Softness abounds.