Andrew, this might be the most beautiful sentence ever written: "If I’m not a Barbie airplane pilot anymore, what am I?" Like dissertations should be written about it. In fact, I might start writing a dissertation about it. Brilliant! There were actually many dissertation-worthy lines in this! Loved them all!
So relatable. My eyes welled up this week realizing that I only have 2 more times to walk my fourth grader to her new elementary class. Glad you had the 4-yr-old and Barbie to get you through. I just have the 4-yr-old, but he’ll do just fine. 💛
A friend of mine gives us her nine-going-on-nineteen year old daughter’s forgotten items. Once, a giant Barbie playhouse. Most recently, a stencil and stamp kit. The mom described the items wistfully, like she sees her daughter at four years old, playing with the little items at just that moment.
I try to focus on that nostalgic beauty as opposed to what I’m really thinking: “More junk to clutter up our house.”
You are undoubtedly the only one to ever feel this way.
I, for one, am too masculine and sturdy to allow salty discharge to emanate from my eyeballs for something as simple as a child growing up and leaving you in the shadows. Forever.
How do you know ChatGPT doesn’t navel gaze? I bet it does- it’d modeled on writing and thus writers and thus maybe it spends all its time when it’s not spewing nonsense contemplating the meaning of life. (Ok, doubtful!)
Andrew, this might be the most beautiful sentence ever written: "If I’m not a Barbie airplane pilot anymore, what am I?" Like dissertations should be written about it. In fact, I might start writing a dissertation about it. Brilliant! There were actually many dissertation-worthy lines in this! Loved them all!
Thank you, Shelly! I can’t wait to read that. I think I’ve always wanted to be a dissertation.
So relatable. My eyes welled up this week realizing that I only have 2 more times to walk my fourth grader to her new elementary class. Glad you had the 4-yr-old and Barbie to get you through. I just have the 4-yr-old, but he’ll do just fine. 💛
Thank you! Hope y’all have a good start to the school year!
Dinner plate colors are no decision to take lightly.
Agreed. Funniest thing is my kids have long ago stopped noticing but I still use their traditional colors.
I bet subconsciously they know though, and will remember.
A friend of mine gives us her nine-going-on-nineteen year old daughter’s forgotten items. Once, a giant Barbie playhouse. Most recently, a stencil and stamp kit. The mom described the items wistfully, like she sees her daughter at four years old, playing with the little items at just that moment.
I try to focus on that nostalgic beauty as opposed to what I’m really thinking: “More junk to clutter up our house.”
You’re defintely getting the bad end of that deal
😂
You are undoubtedly the only one to ever feel this way.
I, for one, am too masculine and sturdy to allow salty discharge to emanate from my eyeballs for something as simple as a child growing up and leaving you in the shadows. Forever.
I knew it!
How do you know ChatGPT doesn’t navel gaze? I bet it does- it’d modeled on writing and thus writers and thus maybe it spends all its time when it’s not spewing nonsense contemplating the meaning of life. (Ok, doubtful!)
Good point. It better be super depressed soon!
Time for that 4th kid...
Haha, don’t give me any ideas