Bear’s second birthday is in five days.  How is that even possible?  I’m working on a letter to him (my practice of writing monthly letters slowed to a crawl/stop in the last few months; the last one is at sixteen months here) that I’ll post soon.  Without having finished it, I can say this: motherhood has been the biggest, most fundamental shift that I’ve ever experienced.  It hasn’t always been easy, but I am so, so grateful for it.  It is, quite simply, the best thing that’s ever happened to me.  And after a lot of self-doubt at the beginning, I think I’m finally able to accept that I’m not half bad at it! 

In other news, I’m doing something cool in a few weeks.  More on that soon too.  Without being too mysterious, the photo above (a shot I snapped in 2007) is a preview.  Can anyone guess what it is?