Ben is extra sweet and sensitive today. I am extra sweet and sensitive today. Bean is always sweet and sensitive. He is such a show-off.

The rest of us are often all up in our own heads. We can be very poetic about how much we love one another and still get snappy the second we don’t get our way.

Last night, we lived vicariously through a boy who ran off angry, and we are feeling especially delicate about how much we treasure each other. I think. I feel close to tears over the beauty of my children’s love today.