Day 26. 10 small moments

1. Two nights of good rest, but the feeling of June gloom remains. I give myself until Sunday to get out of this malaise. It's only been a few days since they left; a week since the fracas. 

2. Working with him is 90% rewarding and lovely.... But the 10% misses my old gig, my old stuff, my own challenges to work through on my own -- none of it coffee related.

3. Seeing e'ry body at Downer Cafe during an amazing lunch... And I crush hard on the company all over again.

4. The play is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He portrays the Magic Mirror and a dwarf. He openly feeds the lines to his little brother, the Prince. I witness all of this and feel all the feels. Even as I'm full of doubt in so many things right now, I'm cognizant that I have two boys that help each other with their lines in a neighborhood play.

5. Dwarfs? Dwarves? Adding to the big pile of someday maybe never: "A Comparative Analysis of Brothers Grimm and Tolkien." 

6.  I take the two boys to the grocery store, and they are super helpful. One chooses grapes while the other chooses Granny Smith apples. One chooses chocolate ice cream while the other chooses Lemon Popsicles... Sweet and Tart. Yin and Yang. Brothers.

7. The heat is heavy, and so they put on their bathing trunks and water the garden and each other.

8. Tacos for dinner. So easy, and I feel blessed for this small simple win today.

9. Before I put her to bed, I hug her tightly for a minute. We exchange big toothy grins, and then she points to her crib -- like the little Queen she is.

10. Thirty minutes of Legos with him before bed. I hunt down the body parts from the massive piles in preparation for tomorrow's build. It's a different kind of habitual soothing.