The Winds Blog
Re-evaluate, Reconsider and Resolve to make changes…
Change has been on my mind the past few months. My older children had birthdays and suddenly seem grownup or heading that way. Maybe it’s just nostalgia for the times when their mother was the universal center. I knew their little bodies better than my own. My daughter has all the intellect of a grown young woman, unaware that she hasn’t acquired the experience or wisdom to balance that intellect. She lounges on her bed reading, wearing tight bell bottomed pants and I see myself at her age (minus the bad attitude and Janis Joplin look I tried to cultivate). Samuel’s facial features have sharpened into a handsome boy. He carries his little brother, Henry around on his hip, protective and paternal. I catch a glimpse of a gentle grown man with his own children someday. Both kids are navigating more complicated relationships with their friends and eventually the trickier land of romance and inevitable broken hearts. They will never be my babies again. It’s all good. I’m confident the best is yet to come in my relationship with these two and my precocious sweet Henry gives me all the baby fix I need.
Sometimes you meet people and just know they are going to be great parents. It’s a vibe or something. The way they interact with your kids, a level of commitment, an attitude of patience and tolerance. When I found out that our prep cook extraordinaire, Julie Golomb Gross was pregnant, I thought, she and her husband Paul will be great parents. Well little Ruby was born December 18th. We warmly welcome her into our Winds family and wish only the best (and sleepfilled nights) for Ruby, Julie and Paul.