Last week Tiny Person turned five years old. Over the past few months, I've taken a few notes about his fifth year of life. Not sure where all those notes are right now, but I have found a few and wanted to get this written down despite my failure to keep up with the almost daily becomings that I had done up through him turning four years old. Amazing, aye? I'm home more now than in the past and yet it didn't make me better at documenting his life. Perhaps I felt more of a drive and guilt when I was out of the house more. Still, I want to make documenting his life a part of my life so that he can look back and read it someday. I've been reading through my own old journals lately trying to extract lessons and ways of thinking from the past that still haunt my habits and thinking today. I've been surprised at some of the patterns that I've found this time around and have delved deeply into working on those thoughts and stories that I told myself that weren't s