thesmithian-blog reblogged
Happy Father’s Day to the best father out there me @naterobinson lol #holdat :: http://bit.ly/12Az5yg
[look of the hour]
'I remember hearing this: “And he always tells me he loves me.” As she read those words aloud, she glanced up and graced me with a smile so full of mischief and pleasure that my chest felt as if it would burst...'
I might not be someone else’s definition of a full-fledged father. But I wouldn’t change my fatherlike status for anything.
more.
...it wasn’t until I became an unmarried mother myself that I understood just how much pretending we ask ourselves and sometimes even our children to do. We insist that we’ll be fine—and for the most part, we will be. But we’re so intent on proving it to everyone (especially ourselves) that we keep silent about the days when we’re not, the days when some cooperation and attentiveness isn’t the same as enough.