Your child joins your life.
You don't join theirs.

In 2017 my husband and I ran SeaWheeze together. It's Lululemon's half marathon in Vancouver, one of those races that's become as much a festival as a finish line, and he coached me the entire thirteen miles. It was one of the best weekends we'd had. I got a spot in 2018 and was realistic about it. I had just had a baby. I deferred and told myself 2019 was the year. I won the lottery again in 2019. One year post baby, one year into all of it, and the race fell on my son's fir