Your official book, the one chronicling your family journey, will be full of highs and lows. First time milestones and fun vacations and big achievements. Dark moments of sickness or loss or despair.
So yes, that’s all in the official book. But the book is thick. And tons of pages are full of non-highs and and non-lows.
Stuff you don’t think will even make the final version of your book. Stuff you take for granted. Stuff that seems pretty boring. Stuff you miss because you’re distracted. Stuff you just do. Stuff that is just….stuff.
It pays to realize the vast majority of your official parenting book is actually the stuff between the other stuff.
Gratefully Dad 