I am continually amazed by how small this world is.

I posted to a message board and mostly with a group of women who were all due in July. We splintered off and started our own board (and “mommy wars” be damned, this experience has been so wonderful and enriching) and one of the members, whose son is also named Matthew, and who also works full-time in addition to being a mom, messaged me today, because one of her colleagues knows Danville, for whom my Matthew was named.

Last night was hard - Matthew was resistant to sleep at around 10 and 11 and it took quite some doing to get him to sleep finally. He woke up a couple of times and then was up for good when I was far too tired to function. Today, hearing about these small world connections made me remember my sweet friend Danville again and why we named our son after him. He is a little troublemaker - and so fascinated by the world that he doesn’t want to sleep. Just like Danville.