Ten.One Thousand, Six Hundred & Twenty-Eight

1. Don’t forget the donuts.

2. I chuckle to myself as I try to find containers with the reddest strawberries for this summery cake the winter baby always asks for.

3. I tiptoe around the Christmas day trash still on the floor of her room to wake him up. He remembers to go back and get his water bottle.

4. He looks surprised to see us here.

5. I take him because I wanted to share with him this small but very important place where I spent a significant amount of time, where I learned a lot about myself and the experience of the past year of my life.

6. Live Dungeness crab.

7. Tomorrow is his last day.

8. He asks me what I think the judges on the Great British Baking Show would say about my cake. “That the sponge is a little stoggy but tastes good.”

9. They tell me to calm down and not respond until the next day.

10. The day ended better than it started.