Wrote these originally as Facebook posts. They are treasures to me, so I had to put them here.
He turned to walk up to his mom’s after I hugged him. I could see his face tear apart as he turned his head and his voice trembled as he said “goodbye, I love you.”
I never knew I could love someone so much.
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Dropped my son off at school then went to the grocery store in the way home. We used to always do that together, him “helping” me collect items, us talking about things, him riding in the shopping cart. Today it was just me. Wanted to make free time for us later.
I checked out in record time, of course, and without incident. As I walked out, a young mother was putting her daughter in her cart, the girl must have been no older than 2. They were both smiling.
I never do this but I almost went over to tell her to “treasure every moment,” and that it “goes way too fast,” as people do; but I couldn’t: my face was too contorted and I was doing everything I could not to break down and cry on the way back to my car.
