Writer's Block: Turn and face the strain

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I had a baby. Almost five years ago now, actually. There are some days when it's a positive thing--I see the way he sees the world, and how I can learn from how he sees the world. When I see his mental leaps to places I've not pointed him, it's awesome. He can just collapse totally into you, completely trusting, absolutely loving...it's amazing.

Then there are days when it's a negative thing--there are many things in my life I've had to set aside, or even just think I have to set aside. He's a new person in the household, and the dynamics of the house and how we spend our free time have changed because of that. And it's a negative thing when I yearn for how things were, or want more time without a learning creature at my knee, and so on. None of which is his fault; it's just me learning how to deal with constant change and letting go of some things in my past, and accepting how things are now.

Luckily, there's more positive than negative.