Lydia does say the most profound things sometimes. Tage has been driving her crazy for quite a while, wanting to get in her stuff all the time and to do the same things she’s doing. I was trying to help her feel better, saying, “he just wants to be like you because he thinks you’re so cool.” (Yes, the same thing that I hated<\/i> to hear my mom tell me about my own younger brothers — I just wanted them to leave me alone, for crying out loud!)<\/p>\n
Anyway, she looked at me for a moment then said thoughtfully, “Why can’t he be like himself?”<\/p>\n
I didn’t have an answer for her, but I hope that as he grows older he learns to do just that — be like himself. Lydia already knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lydia does say the most profound things sometimes. Tage has been driving her crazy for quite a while, wanting to get in her stuff all the time and to do the same things she’s doing. I was trying to help her feel better, saying, “he just wants to be like you because he thinks you’re… Read More Things a Mother Hopes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}