I love you a googleplex

Delilah was drooling, as usual. I was lovingly calling her a gooberface and saying, ‘but I love your gooberface'! Then I remembered 'googleplex'. You invented the term when we used to try to outdo each other with the 'I love you more'. You came up with ‘I love you a googleplex’ to outdo my ‘I love you infinity cookies’. My mum used to say that to me. Nate and I still play this game. Who loves the other more. I'm so glad to have other children to love. I’ve chosen to focus on the love that surrounds me, not the love I've lost. It's the only way through this to the other side. I want a life with fun and laughter and joy. It's been three years or so since I lost my dad and then my mum. I'm not drowing in grief anymore. I suspect the loss of a child takes longer to heal from, but I'm a pro now. I'm going to be okay.