The meals take longer. The flour ends up everywhere. The questions never stop. 
But the memories? The connection? The life lessons? 
They’re being built moment by moment in the mess, in the slowness, in the invitation to come alongside. It won’t be efficient.
It won’t always be clean. 
But including them might just be the most important work of all. 🤍 Let’s keep choosing presence over perfection, even when it costs us time. Because it’s never really wasted. ✨