I dropped Elliot today at preschool after 5 days together. Since Friday afternoon (it’s Monday now), we spent every moment together. Waking and sleeping. Now I’m alone and it is quiet in the house. I miss him terribly and won’t see him until Wednesday afternoon.

After every 5 days that he is with Karolina, I notice small changes in his growth: he speaks better or moves more surely. He has new words or constructs sentences a little differently. He no longer says, “excuse me” before most sentences.

Anyway. Every. Moment. Together. No exaggeration.