My Fiancé Said My Five-Year-Old Brothers Could Stay—Then a January 29 Email Revealed What He Had Asked the Wedding Venue
When Caleb came in, he asked whether the box held Christmas lights.
“No.
Those are on the other shelf.”
“We keep those?”
“Yes.”
He nodded and went to tell Dylan.
I stood beside the closed box for another minute.
There were things I had lost and things I was keeping, and I did not have to make my brothers understand the whole distinction before helping them find their crayons.