Rockabye by Rebecca Woolf

Author:Rebecca Woolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

Months passed quickly, and then you were born.

In one year you have held up a mirror and taught me more about life than I imagined I could ever learn from an infant, a baby, and now a one-year-old. I look at you and I see life. I see the good fun of dirt, because you throw up your hands full of filth and smile sheepishly. You are the love of my life. You humble me. I am a greater person because of you. I am not defined by motherhood, but it is very possible that a major part of how I define myself is being your mother. You: Archer, the little boy with the marble eyes and the two front teeth.

Instead of feeling like more of a grown-up, I feel like I am a little girl again, in pigtails, sneaking cookies from the jar. Unspooling yarn with you and jumping on the bed.

I never danced in the middle of the grocery store until I met you. I’d forgotten how to put flowers in my hair and play peekaboo behind every tree. I never fell face first into the sand and laughed for days. Thank you for that. Life is so much more fun dirty and messy than neat and tidy and boring.

I think if I were one-year-old, we would be best friends. I think I would enjoy shredding magazine pages with you and patting the dogs and swaying to the music and laughing at the squirrels as they chase each other across the sidewalk.

I got you, babe. Like an imaginary friend come to life, my little koala bear to eat off my plate and smear cake in my face and scratch my eyeballs out of my head. I get to sleep with you tonight because we’re at Gammy and Papa’s house, and as I type, you are waiting for me with your eyebrows up and your hands over your head.

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