It’s the little things that often remind me of how quickly the girls are growing up.  The most recent examples of this phenomenon occurred with Sophie over the holiday break, and involve a new desk and a solar system.   Who’d have guessed that these two random things – a surface on which to write and a bunch of painted spheres – would make me feel incredibly happy to be Sophie’s mom, yet bittersweet about the little girl in her ceding space to the big girl increasingly asserting her individuality?

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