Pancake Making and Memories...

Making pancakes this morning (by request of the hubby) and as I made them I requested Alexa to play one of my favorite breakfast making singer/songwriter/folk and child lore master--Dan Zanes.  

As we bopped to some random DZ, I realized that I not only think of fun times with his songs, but I specifically think of Michael.  And I mean YM - Young Michael.  

Not this guy (whom I love dearly): 

Must you take a picture of me, mom....

But THIS kid:

I guess this is part of parenting too....grieving for someone that is not here anymore in a sense...obviously, he is here and even that KID pops up every so often now....

He's so cute asleep!  :-)

But the cute 5 year old little boy has grown up, I have grown older...sometimes a little wiser...but mostly surprised when my spotty memory actually clearly remembers that little tyke and the fun times we have had.  

Huh...time again runs away from me...

So.  I thought I was going to try to keep up on this blog a bit more.  But, well...damn...its already February!

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Willow has been having a tough time lately.  Mainly, it can all come down to: she is a hormonal teenager who is quirky (i.e. probably on the spectrum somewhere) and she is going through Middle School.  So--basically, she is going through the worst years of childhood.  (ask anyone, would they like to be 13 years old again--ah...nope!!)

Last night, she came down and just sobbed and cried.  Her feelings were hurt, she felt bad, she had a bad day--and everything we said to help her---(especially ANYTHING her dad said) just made her cry more.

I cried a bit with her.  

And I know...there was nothing that really could be said.

Sometimes---you just need a good cry.