Quote: What other things do 6yo do? Pull her hair, maybe show her some bugs?
Yeah, and run up and punch or kiss, too!
Gabe, please know that I was thinking about you and S6 this weekend, and I suspected this was going to be pretty hard. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to call you...family things have been nuts lately and pulling me in 100 different directions.
Something that helped me, after I got past the initial shock of moving/putting stuff into storage (and yes, there was a fair amount of sobbing and knee-buckling too) was to remember that it's all just stuff. It's just a house, made of 2x4s, cement, brinks, siding, shingles and drywall. It's just stuff, dude.
I know it's hard to think of things that way, but we anthropormorphize inanimate objects. The stuff that constructs your house could give a rats patooty about who lives there. It's just stuff. It's just molecules.