There comes a moment in every child’s life when she stands at the top of the stairs crying “mommy, I need you!”
It will be thirty years before she understands what mama is really doing when she calls, “Yes, darling, I know. Let me just get your cough medicine!”
Mother is actually going for a mouthful of Cadbury chocolate and a slug of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Good night, dear.
Glasses clink and voices rise and fall. Sudden laughter startled the toddler whose trying to sleep hours after her bedtime.
It's a family gathering, and though too many of us are missing, it has its own perfection.