HR wouldn’t let me build a fort under my desk.

Before I had kids, I had forgotten a few of life’s most profound and irrefutable truths:

  1. Anything in the entire universe can be created using the Earth’s five fundamental building blocks: crayons, construction paper, tape, scissors and glue.
  2. A fort is safest and most perfect place in creation.
  3. A fort may be built in any place, at any time, using any materials.
  4. Even the hardest, scariest and most daunting aspects of life are no match for soft jammies and a cuddly blanket.
  5. The world is joyous and fascinating.  It can also be big and scary and hard.  Family is what makes it the first part more often than it is the second.