Living in the Blink
DISCLAIMER: No, this isn't turning into a sappy blog. I promise. It's just that ... It's Friday evening and everyone in my household is gone except for me, and I ate too much dessert and am likely PMSing so I'm sitting here on my couch like an absolute lump, all up in my feelings. I tried watching TikToks but damn it why does the algorithm know exactly what will throw me into a tailspin?! Especially when I'm hormonal and overstuffed?! "It's been said that you will spend the majority of your life knowing your children as adults," said the guy from the TikTok video in question. "But for a brief moment, a blink really, you get to know them as children." He talks about how when they're little, you carry them on your hip and watch them sleep and you're the center of their world ... and then how quickly you realize all that is over. "So if you're tired — bone tired, from the noise, the mess, the constant — know this: you're ...