14 Scenes
Scene 1: We open at 4:30 am, with Rosie waking up, refusing to go back to bed. She joins us in our bed, and proceeds to flap her little legs and climb onto bodies and eventually kick people in the face until it becomes too much to handle, and oh by the way, there's Addie and Ben and Theo somehow in bed now too, it's 6 am, it's time to get up.
Scene 14: I'm back home at midnight after a 5 and a half hour board meeting. It's time to write, and wind down with a glass of Writer's Tears whiskey.
Scene 2: After a long morning of making 6 to 13 breakfasts, and piling the kids into the van, Kendra drives them away, and I proceed to clean the house while listening to a work meeting on headphones.
Scene 13: I'm recording a voice memo the entire time I drive, making up songs and couplets and rhymes while driving on quiet, empty roads near midnight. I keep signing until I open the door to the house. I hope my last note didn't echo through this quiet house and wake people up.
Scene 3: It's a lovely wo…
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