This really resonates with me as a mother. My life has come to be about my child and I try not to imagine him wanting to leave home one day. It's inevitable, I know (unless house prices and interest rates continue rising). I still have the shorts he wore to daycare when he was five, his first superman cape from when he was four and lots of other items that I hold onto. But somehow when the change comes we shed some tears and move on, like when he told me he didn't need me to read him bedtime stories - he could do it himself.
Because we've moved several times we do not have a place like your kitchen which carries so many memories but now we've settled in our own place and maybe in ten years we will have it.
Good luck on your travels, I'm looking forward to the stories you share from the road. Reading your essay, I felt like we were sitting in that orange kitchen while you took a break and told me the history of the Christmas Cactus. I wish I lived near by, I take it in for you and give it a good home until you return.
This really resonates with me as a mother. My life has come to be about my child and I try not to imagine him wanting to leave home one day. It's inevitable, I know (unless house prices and interest rates continue rising). I still have the shorts he wore to daycare when he was five, his first superman cape from when he was four and lots of other items that I hold onto. But somehow when the change comes we shed some tears and move on, like when he told me he didn't need me to read him bedtime stories - he could do it himself.
Because we've moved several times we do not have a place like your kitchen which carries so many memories but now we've settled in our own place and maybe in ten years we will have it.
Good luck on your travels, I'm looking forward to the stories you share from the road. Reading your essay, I felt like we were sitting in that orange kitchen while you took a break and told me the history of the Christmas Cactus. I wish I lived near by, I take it in for you and give it a good home until you return.