Status Updates From Tantrum

“I’d plop them down in this horrible world and help them navigate it in a way that made me feel better even as I knew and know that there is no way around the bad stuff. You go through it no matter what.”

“In some fundamental way, she is me. And I am her. I can see power in her that I don’t see in myself, and I wish I were more like her, but at the same time, feel a horrible guilt for the fact that she is so much like me. The selfishness of parenthood hits me. The fact that I thought I could make people and that somehow in making those people I would better understand my own life and purpose...

Born with a full set of teeth, is 2 months old already talking and walking. They should have named her Renesemee.

Only a little ways into this story and I am hooked!