I love my mom and I love an excuse to sit down and talk to her for hours. And then when we get home we keep talking for another couple hours. Really helps with the whole “we watch our parents grow old too”
when you’re catching up or asking advice or fighting or putting up boundaries, whatever your relationship, play your parent a song you’ve been listening to a lot. even if they don’t get it, it’s a revelatory experience if you let it be
My toaster is having a bad week so she doesn’t have the energy to hold the lever down anymore. Which means I have to stand there pressing it down for three minutes making sure my toast doesn’t burn. I used to take that time for granted, now it’s being robbed of me by my broken toaster. Trying to give her grace.
