My skids can be a major pain in my butt, but every once in a while they'll do something to validate what I'm doing. Today my SD13 came home with a library book of Dr. Suess stories to read to the babies. She hates to read, so it's really a big deal to me. She's sitting on the floor right now with one in her lap and reading aloud to them. She's stumbling over the words, but it means so much to me that she's trying.

I walked in the nursery a few weeks ago and my SS17 who is 6'1 and about 270lbs was reading them a bedtime story. It was just so cute seeing this big guy hunched over the crib reading "Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?"

I notice a lot of the advice on hear is to "disengage". I dont really like that. I know every situation is different, and I'm lucky to not have BM in the picture at all, but I'm a firm believer in "it takes a village to raise a child". It's not always easy and it's not always fun, but moments like these make it all worthwhile.