I was traveling last week and upon my return not only could my tiny charge miraculously tell me the month’s of the year (in order) but he had begun to call me ‘Mommy my Princess’. Now honestly, I was so stoked about my prodigy learning the months that I was glowing – it was almost too much to then be crowned his princess. It is these moments that make all the tantrums and irrational conversations about why it is important to wear TWO shoes melt away.

Of course by the next morning he had crowned himself the princess and was once again wearing a single shoe and insisting on gold fish for breakfast ……