It gets easier because we (and our minds) get older

You know you've hit peak parental Zen when you're halfway through forwarding a video of capybaras being cute to your estranged child before you remember that they don’t want to hear from you. Or, maybe you're shopping for the holidays and you don’t realize you are still including them in your ‘how big does the turkey need to be’ calculation. Perhaps you pick up a bag of their favourite snacks while grocery shopping, totally blanking that they aren’t going to be there to eat them. Ahh, the bliss of losing one’s memory. The bad stuff goes along with the good stuff. Thank God. :)