My Child Laughed And Said Dad Was There Until I Looked Closer

to our son in that moment, whatever else he was or had been or would turn out to be.

We were not a family in the shape we had been. We were a family in a different shape, one that took more intention and more care and more honest conversation with a four-year-old than I had expected.

But we were still a family.

And the little boy who had pointed at his continue reading …