I Am a Mother

Elizabeth J. Grace www.tinygracenotes.com Layenie, my wife, is a pediatric nurse. I feel very comfortable asking her questions about the health and development of our young sons. They will turn one in January and are ahhh they are soooo adorable … but I digress.  I might be digressing because the beginning of this post hurts a little to write. The other evening, I had been staying home with the boys, which I do once a week, because, you know, child care costs a lot, and also, as I wrote, adorable. Benjy was doing this thing with his hand which is very like something I also do with my own hand, so this is what I said — and although I am not usually able to hear myself, I can derive a proper quote from the ensuing conversation: Ib: “See what Benjy’s doing with his hand there … is that OK?”…