The Hardest Conversation
Lisa Bonchek Adams
From the time my oldest child Paige was born everyone kept telling me, "Just you wait."
When she made it through the terrible twos without much of a tantrum.
When she made it through elementary school and a move from NYC without trouble.
"Just you wait," they said, "girls are drama. You got lucky before. But the teen years? Oh boy... just you wait."
Today she prepared me a bowl of soup and brought it up to my bedroom. I was resting after my surgery yesterday, the room was dark. I invited her to come snuggle with me in the big bed. We've never let our children sleep in our bed so they think climbing in is a big treat. I asked her if she wanted to talk about what was going on, about my news about having metastatic breast cancer. She did.
And so it began: an hour-long talk that started with her first question, "Are you scared?"
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