Why

All Lyla wants to do these days is open cabinets and drawers. Today at Auntie Jen's place, a cabinet entertained her for 20 minutes. That's huge considering that on the attention span continuum, baby humans fall just below adult fleas.

What's crazy is that in all the hours Lyla has spent opening and closing cabinets and drawers, she has never once pulled something out.

But what really blows my mind is that Lyla won't remember any of this. She hasn't yet in her entire life had a single experience she'll remember when she's older.

A parent's memory isn't much better. Ask your parents what you were like when you were mere months old, and you probably won't hear many specifics. My guess is their memories of you as a baby got bombarded by how you changed as you grew up. So here you are now, and it's almost like that tiny version of yourself, with all the random, bizarre things you did, never existed at all.

That's why I write.