Challenge #1: Admitting the truth, deciding to live in the now, and finally picking up some reading glasses. On your son’s second birthday, you note with rueful irony.

Challenge #2: Not losing said reading glasses at least 3 times a day.

(Althought one of the times I lost them yesterday, I found them in the trash. The newly-minted two-year old had put them there, obviously ashamed at having such an old mother.)

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