Well, our laid back little Evan is starting to take more and more steps so it's pretty exciting around here. We all cheer and clap and he gets all excited. It's fun. Yesterday he just started letting go of whatever he's hanging onto and taking 5 or 6 steps to the next thing or to us. 15 months old and 3 months after Dylan, but he's doing it and doing it in his own time. Such a cutie. So - we still can't say that he's walking officially but it at least appears to be on his agenda now!
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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