Last night Madeline was next to me in the living room and she was asking me a question and petting the hair on my arm as she was talking — like pulling it up from my wrist and then patting it back down in the direction from which it grows and settles and nothing at all happened relating to the hair — I answered her question and we went on, but when I woke up this morning, I had a thought that forever henceforth, she is going to associate this hair on an arm with a kind of femininity that is very tender and very familiar because it’s her mom’s femininity.
This made the hair on MY arms raise. A few months ago my little 5yo stole my phone and I found her doing a GRWM video talking about self-care and her face oil (I created a face oil that I named after her). Note that I have never done a video like that in front of her before (nor has she ever seen any 'content' like that—she's 5. What I was left with is that self-care, finding your voice, sharing it, owning your wisdom...all things that took me my whole life to learn and am still learning—can maybe come easily for her now and possibly always? And, that maybe my work is making her work more simple. And then I thought, how amazing is that.
This made the hair on MY arms raise. A few months ago my little 5yo stole my phone and I found her doing a GRWM video talking about self-care and her face oil (I created a face oil that I named after her). Note that I have never done a video like that in front of her before (nor has she ever seen any 'content' like that—she's 5. What I was left with is that self-care, finding your voice, sharing it, owning your wisdom...all things that took me my whole life to learn and am still learning—can maybe come easily for her now and possibly always? And, that maybe my work is making her work more simple. And then I thought, how amazing is that.
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