grown.

our last whole day together in the Fortress until summertime.
awwwwww, man.
watching kids get big is encouraging and depressing at the same time.
they're developing, and becoming, and growing,
and i'm just getting older.
ugh.
lucky for me,
these two valkyries of lightning-striking viking virtue and active participation
are also lovely in all the ways i am not.
check the proud-papa-type teleport:

c'mon.
they used to be itty-flippin' bitty babies!
like, yesterday or so.
what. the. F*. ??
time is storming the castle.
i preferred when it was laying siege to sleeplessness,
but i guess sovereigns need to weather the worst of it.
is that obnoxious?
it's true, at any rate.
-
neighbors,
i'll take all the ugly, lonley, sucky sh!t-salad of my normal everyday life
as fair-trade even-steven value for the magic minutes i've spanned with
these two terrific girls all week.
i am grateful for the time i have been given,
and for the co-conspirators i plot and plan with.
this might be the best part-
which implies the worst is yet to come.
i'm ready, if unwilling, to go back to being by myself for a bit;
never quiet, never soft.....