It’s Eric’s first time on two wheels. Mary watches him through the kitchen window as he pedals faster and faster, becoming a blur.
The walls start to close in again and she reaches into a drawer for her little bottle of pills. One day, she hopes, she won’t need them.
Daniel has always loved the stabilising influence of words.
Watching your kids grow up can be stressful, I agree. I would go and scream in a cupboard or mop the kitchen floor again and again and again. All six of them made it to their teens, It is tough to watch, I agree.