Day 6 of ‘26

You ever have those days? Where, from the moment you wake up, you just want to cover your head and hibernate? Every step was a trudge through hip-deep sludge? Metaphorically speaking… I did no mud sludge trudging today. But if I had, it might have made the highlight reel.

I have not learned how to separate my adult children’s actions from my own self-worth. And when they do stupid things and make bad decisions, I take it personally. Where did I fail them? What should we have done differently as parents? How do we parent this stage? I have more questions than answers, for sure. 

It is one perk of the big family. There is always one kid who isn’t being a dinosaur aardvark (which is code for dumb a— in our fam.) 

So I ended this hard day with homemade mint brownies, made by John, while watching high school basketball on TV.