No One Can Stop Gravity
No one can stop gravity. Today is Tuesday and you've officially been at school for a week. The first day didn't count because it was more of a parent-teacher meeting and afterwards we took you to babička's and went to work. I had written a note to myself on my iPhone not to forget to put your snack in your backpack (rice-cake with peanut butter; chocolate croissant; two carrot sticks) and not to forget to fill your water bottle. But when I got up Mommy had already done that before she had left for work. Every fourth Tuesday she has to go to work early, like I do every first and third Tuesday and she was gone before we even got up at six. I put rice cake with peanute butter in it last night because I know you like that and it is filling. I know that you almost certainly will not like whatever they give you at lunch; and you have to fill up at snacktime. You put the backpack on. With the little textbooks and snack-box and water bottle and gym towel in it, as we...