The beginning of . . .

So.

I am late.

I meant to do this the other day (New Year and all, you know), but then the day got away from me (reallytruly) — playing in the snow with my niece, making dinner, visiting with my brother — all good things. Then suddenly I was in bed, and it was the next morning and I remembered I wanted to start that THING and then it was the rest of the day and I was making dinner again and visiting with Amy and then DANGIT the day was over again and so, well… I tried again and ran into majorstupidFRUSTRATING posting problems due to having only an iPad (don’t ask!) and so I gave up and now finally…. here I am. #holidaybrain

But it’s my thing and my rules so, heh.

So.

Daily.

Something.
(Hopefully something worth remembering.)

Definitely something.

Daily. In words.

And that is it, really. No other rules.

So, here is my first something: Family is funny. It’s hard to tell where one emotion begins and another ends. Yeah, maybe we don’t need to be able to know… maybe that’s okay. I suspect many (most?) people don’t bother worrying about this or trying to “figure it out.” But this is something I spend a lot of time thinking about. Parsing. Disentangling. Disentangling emotions. For reasons I don’t yet fully understand and cannot yet articulate, this disentanglement is harder with family than with other people. I still try. To disentangle. (I also realize this may be a lifelong task, and I’m comfortable with that.) It’s a challenge. Where to pick up one end, untie the knot, smooth it out, and lay it flat again? Where is the other end? Do all the pieces have an end? (Should they?) Hm.
In the meantime, I know this: I LOVE THIS GUY:

(my nephew, the newest member of our family)

LOVE.
🙂

All ends laid flat, easy, no tangles, that one.