The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

by Rachel Linden

You can’t keep holding on to the vision of the future you imagined you’d have, the way you thought things would turn out. You have to let the present be what it is—broken, flawed, painful, but real.”

Maybe parenthood always felt a little like this, like there was so much love and never quite enough time. It all was going so fast.

“Sometimes it’s in the breaking that the light can finally shine through.”