I Promised My Son Forever—Then Cancer Made Me Count the Months

He knows I might not be there for middle school graduation.

He knows I might not dance at his real wedding.

But he also knows this:

I didn’t leave him in the dark.

I stayed.

I told him love doesn’t disappear—it changes shape.

And tomorrow, if I can stand, I’m taking him back to the swings.

Because that is my job now:

To push him higher and higher, toward the continue reading …