The Rambling Ark

Son's braces ✅

My braces ✅

Turned one year older today! It was quiet. It was familiar. It was wonderful. That is all. (Don't trip, Mother's were recognized as well!)

Max has always been an independent kid. We trusted him to go out into the world and experience his friends and environment around him. Have there been times when this backfired, sure, but overall he is a kid that gets free reign to go most places with most people with simple guardrails. Who are you with? Where will you be? Check in when you are there...the very basic things.

So, you think it wouldn't be so hard to let him go to Dallas, TX this weekend for basketball without us. I only got emotional when I gave him the biggest bear hug I could. The kind of hug that says, "I love you, don't go, but go, and do good stuff, and have fun, be kind, but don't go. But, go."