‘What if one gets sick and another needs to be picked up from school?’

‘I have two emergency contacts, and I will be the first call.’

‘What about bedtime?

What about grief?

What about the fact that one of these children still needs diapers and another is terrified of sleeping alone?’

‘I’m learning,’ I said.

‘And I know I have more to learn.’

I watched her write that down, and for an unreasonable second I worried she’d use my honesty against me.