Zam is very much a teenager now.\u00a0 Tall, lanky\/scrawny, sullen, surly – and, lately, very much hygiene-optional.\u00a0 With all the requisite olfactory problems that causes.<\/p>\n
So I was walking through the “baby” section in WalMart for some reason the other day – and the smell brought me to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n
They say smells are the most powerful triggers of memory.\u00a0 I’ve a believer today.\u00a0 I had this overwhelming wash of nonspecific baby memories; changing diapers, rocking a tiny Zam to sleep, waking up and checking on him in the middle of the night – complete with the smells that attended each; the relief of a whiff of Desitin on a hot, rashy day, the happy grin when the powder went on, the satisfied gurgle and the aroma of formula as he spit up…<\/p>\n
I think God gives us memories like that to take our minds off the miserable present that teenagers give us for a couple of…months.<\/p>\n
It’s gotta be months.<\/p>\n
Gotta.<\/p>\n
That, or I’ll be spending more time in the baby aisle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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