Sometimes, Always
 I've been busy just doing life lately. The big, the small, the in-between. Thinking about the stages of family life we're leaving behind, and the stages we're headed for. Enjoying where we are (most of the time, anyway).       I always want to choose Love-   sometimes with a toilet brush,   sometimes with cake,    sometimes with a cuddle.    Sometimes it's hard,   sometimes it's easy.    Sometimes in the drive-thru,   sometimes in an emergency department,  sometimes in time-out.    Sometimes it sounds like Macarena,   sometimes it sounds like stepping into a pack of hysterical seagulls,   sometimes it sounds like silence.   sometimes it sounds like a desperate plea for patience and wisdom and just another hour of mamability to get us over the bedtime finish line.    Sometimes it looks like a cold plate of food because mama we want another story,   sometimes it looks like a beach's worth of sand in my car,   sometimes it looks like a walking circus.     Sometime...