My Mother-in-Law Questioned My Baby’s Blue Eyes at Her First Birthday, But the Envelope I Placed in Front of Her Exposed Every Secret

“I know,” he said. “I want her to stay all right.”

“Then show up,” I said. “Consistently. That’s the whole thing. Just show up.”

He has. Not perfectly. Not without complication. But consistently, which is what I asked for and which turns out to be the actual foundation that children build on, not perfection, just the steady reliable fact of someone who continue reading …