Four!
Four years ago today, I became a mom when Drake was born. It’s a strange and disorienting feeling to compare life then and now. People say “it goes so fast,” but it feels like we’ve had a new lifetime in these four years.
Four years ago, G. Grod and I were living in a cute little condo downtown. We both had executive jobs, and walked to work. I regularly went to yoga, and we frequently went out to dinner and to the movies. Now our little family of four lives in a house in a neighborhood. G. has a different job, and I stay home with the kids. We have different friends, and different habits. We also have the extraordinary privilege of being parents to Drake, who is a very cool person. He loves books, music and cars. His current favorite CDs are The Beach Boys and Fatboy Slim. He loves to run, and he’s an agile climber. He’s learning yoga. He likes to shop at our grocery cooperative, though he often doesn’t eat what we buy there. Last year he wanted to be a quarterback and asked us to call him Donovan, since he’s an Eagles fan like his dad. This year, he says he’s Lito Sheppard.
I look forward to seeing who he is, and who we are, next year.