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I had some magic realizations about my 4 year old daughter today. She’s only been on this earth for four years. Literally half her life has been during a global pandemic. And yet she has the most innocent way about her too. If I could only remember the things she says. She absolutely cracks me up and her sweet questions, comments and concerns in this world sometimes shock me! Oh yeah, she’s four. She doesn’t understand sarcasm, don’t be a dick to your own kid. And she wants me with her all the time. I can’t remember a time when it was so simple. Bubbles and dandelions and rocks and sticks. Oh, don’t worry, they’re clean. At least the rocks and sticks that survive the laundry room. Why do I just take things people hand me? Luckily for me, pockets. Unluckily, nonluckily....? Unfortunately for my washer, pockets. The bike ride that we had the other day was so special and we had dandelions for rings and she carried a rock on the back of her tricycle and we raced. The sun was heading down, “the moon was coming up and long ago somebody left with the cup”...does music play in everyone’s heads? It was a fun afternoon. Today, we decorated for Halloween, well she let me, and then she tried on her costume. Well, she tried it on for me. She also stood up for herself tonight. She FELT that s***, again I can’t remember specifically what it was about but I had said something and she believed down in her core that I was wrong. And she was not going to back down and I realized that I am proud that she talked back to me. One moment I was like hell no you didn’t just argue with me then I turned and saw how sure of herself and I realized, my little non-issue (probably something stupid about spilling water out of the tub) didn’t matter. She truly felt like she needed to defend her beliefs. I saw that in her today and I WANTED her to win this fight so that she could see that when she really FEELS right and wrong, choose which one you want and be able to stand by that decision. Choose what you want and it’ll never be wrong. Choices come with consequences thought. Consequences of your actions, my darling, wonderful human, will always exist. But a consequence is not always bad. The word itself has such a negative connotation, but it literally only means the result of the choice. The sum of the equation. It can be good, too.