KDUNK

Dear Lils:

Part of being your mother and you being my daughter is getting to know one another really well. I think we are doing a very good job in this area. This became evident in a trip to IKEA yesterday.

I have a tendency to hem and haw over decisions in life. I can sometimes make myself crazy with the should I?/shoudn’t I? debate in my head. Or in this case – out loud – as I attempted to purchase a new rug for your room.

I walked from rug to rug finally narrowing it down to two rugs that were ‘ok’ – (they didn’t have the one I wanted). After standing next to one of my potential purchases stroking it over and over again saying, “Should we get this one?” you turned to me from the cart with ‘over it’ eyes and said:

Mom, let it go… (exact quote)

In this case you were telling me to physically let go that particular rug I was holding in my hand. But I took it symbolically. And you know what? You were right.

xo