a heavy heart

My yearly solo city trip has started this morning and I’m sitting in the train, reading up on blogs. The first blog I clicked in the discovery is for the girl who needed a hug today. It’s the words that my head was trying to form but couldn’t (yet). I love when this happens. When an internet stranger somehow writes how something current in my life seems to feel. There have been more heavy hearts lately. This morning was the most recent one. We dropped D off at vacation daycare (she goes there every Thursday). In the beginning we had to leave her there with tears in her eyes. Nowadays she handles it a lot better (which is a gigantic relief). But there’s always at least one kid crying that they do not want to be there. Today also, but even more heartbreaking than normal. One of the bigger girls had to say goodbye to her dad and didn’t want him to leave. It started with clinging and teary eyes and when he left to full on screaming and throwing herself on the floor. She was so upset she…