M discovered her shadow a couple of days ago. What joy! It grows long, it grows short, you cannot step on it and it won’t leave you alone. It is there, and now it is not. I loved chasing my shadow as a child – the game was to try and detach from it – M has hours of fun ahead of her. 

I had to add another post on the same day. I have now broken the pattern of writing once a year. At least this one does not start with “So here I am”…there is hope yet…

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This was originally published in the Daily Parenting blog in December 2008.

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