Wisteria: Now Princess, are you going to tell daddy why you decided to tear off your clothes and run around in your diaper?

Camellia: Clothes stupid! 

Wisteria: I know they can be annoying sometimes honey, but you have to wear them it’s inappropriate not to.

Camellia: What ina… inapopeat

Jelly: It’s about time you actually start paying attention to her…

I don’t think anyone actually understood my hesitance…Though I didn’t even understand it myself really. Camellia didn’t deserve the lack of attention I gave her, but it was just hard. What if Mac had been her father? How different would she have been? How different would the twins have been? For a while I guess I just started wondering if it was the right thing to do, moving on from Macaron’s death. I know he wanted it, and I do love Gum. But I just ended up having a moment of guilt. It wasn’t healthy to carry it around, it took some time, and convincing of myself, but the guilt did pass. As much as I missed Macaron, my kids were my life, and there was no point in trying to rewrite it. 

Camellia: Daddy wead!

Wisteria: I don’t think so Princess, it’s… getting kind of late, you should be in bed.

Folly: Oh come on dad. Stop thinking about the stuff you lost, look how much she wants it!

Wisteria: …Where did you hear that Folly?

Folly: Foxglove said, Jelly said, that that is why you don’t like her.

Wisteria: She’s…

Bubblegum: Purple… I mean it’s not like Mac was the only one. We were twins but I got all of one of my parents looks and–

Wisteria: I know it’s just… 

Bubblegum: You’re thinking about what this family would look like if he weren’t gone… aren’t you?

Jam takes after me. I had a crush on my Geography teacher in eighth grade. Though I wouldn’t have written him a love letter or anything. I was out than, but I was awkward enough in school without that added to my junior high experience.

Anyway… Time for some parenting!