After getting some miles in on the trail, I return home and have my favorite breakfast on my deck...avocado toast topped with Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel seasoning....
When I went to go check on him he was on the verge of tears while frantically trying to find and stuff all the white fluff (pee-soaked absorbent material) into...
After all, he's going to continue to make mistakes, right? Soon there will be middle school, and high school, and bazillions of mistakes to be made....
I never realized what a gift that forward trajectory was, until my dad passed away and I had this tricky bedfellow called grief to contend with every day....
The reality is, I'm not a robot. I cannot function at 110% every day or even half of every day. And maybe that's ok. Maybe sometimes, showing up is enough....
Sometimes our food memories are made eating out and my family has it's favorite spots when staying at our cabin on Lake Carlos, located on the Alexandria Chain of Lakes....
