Kaylee started creating her own story based on the characters in this book tonight. She was telling Kyle about it, and he said, “Huh... writing your own story about characters you already know. Know what that’s called?”
Kaylee guessed, “Fan fiction?” https://twitter.com/rainbowstiel/status/1301151007884406784">https://twitter.com/rainbowst...

Then she looked at me with a big smile on her face like she was SO PROUD to share that with me and I almost cried/want to cry now just thinking about it.

All my life as a parent I have been looked down on by others because my life doesn’t completely revolve around my children. The thing my mom and I don’t see eye-to-eye on the most is that I find joy outside of my house, outside of my children, outside of my family.

So for Kaylee to not only know and understand what I do for fun that has nothing to do with her and to see that she doesn’t look down on me for it but actually might look up to be BECAUSE OF IT was more rewarding than I ever could have predicted.