GRIZZLY PEAR

written snapshots

New is Normal

When there’s a baby and a young child in the house, change happens so quickly it becomes normal.

It’s not that you get used to change, but that it just is the frame of reference. You forget yesterday because every yesterday is different.

One day he’s crawling. Next he’s sitting, and then propping himself up unsteadily, and then…. Meanwhile our girl is going through her less dramatic but equally drastic changes as she races towards her fifth birthday.

When every day is a new normal, does the word have any meaning?