My Mother-in-Law Left a Blue Notebook in Our Hallway Closet—After My Son Was Born, I Finally Learned What She Had Been Recording Inside It
Not because the color meant resistance.
Because we still liked it.
That felt healthier.
PART 34 — WE NAME HIM THOMAS
Thomas James Miller.
We had chosen the name months earlier.
Not for Mark’s family.
Not for mine.
Just Thomas.
Eleanor had already referred to him in the notebook as:
