Notes from suburbia

Have you ever noticed how the lyrics of love songs can apply to all sorts of different situations?   Despite the fact they may have been penned with a lover in mind, the words are often transferable to other relationships; to reflect the love within a friendship or to capture the emotion felt between a parent and child.  I was reminded of a great example of this earlier today. When The Teen was a small baby in the early weeks of his life, he spent much of his afternoons and evenings relentlessly crying from the condition dreaded by parents of young babies, COLIC.   Oh my, how we both felt that we suffered during this time.   Him, constantly wanting to feed, only to find my milk seemed to increase his distress, me, feeling like an inadequate mother, helpless and exhausted. As the minutes and hours ticked by during those long and lonely drawn out days, the only release from our distress was for me to hold this small babe of mine and to keep him moving.  ...