Life Decisions

Just thinking on life and lasting decisions.
I have a 20 year-old and a 25 year-old. Neither live at home anymore.
Still to this day, some people ask how I feel about having “started over” again. I tell them it’s the best decision I ever made and here’s more evidence:
Last night my 9 year-old Nick had trouble falling asleep. I talked to him at great length about one of my favorite toys as a child- my paper dolls.
He couldn’t grasp the concept- why that would be a toy or even how it could be fun. I even explained how the clothes had little tabs to help you hang the clothes on the dolls.
He got sad when he asked me if I still had them and I said no. His last question was, “Do you miss them?” I said yes and then he fell asleep.
I just got home from work and by my bed was this picture. He ran in the room and said, “Did you see what I made for you!?!”
I thought it was a picture of me even though I don’t often wear dresses.
Nick then told me he made me a paper doll and was working on making dresses with tabs.
He is the love of my life and the only person on the planet who really “hears” me I can’t imagine our family without him.

About Deedee Cummings

Deedee Cummings is a professional dreamer. She is also an author, therapist, attorney, and mom from Louisville, Kentucky. Cummings founded Make A Way Media in 2014 after struggling to find books with characters who looked like her own children and an extreme lack of stories that reflected their life experiences. Books published by Make A Way focus on hope, diversity, social justice, and therapeutic skills for children and adults. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, Essence Magazine, Psych Central, Well+Good, and The EveryGirl, among other media outlets. In 2021, she was appointed to the Kentucky Early Childhood Advisory Council by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, and reappointed to a second term in 2025 acknowledging her decades long service to the children and families of Kentucky. Deedee is also the founder of The Louisville Book Festival. She was inspired to work to highlight and celebrate a culture of reading in her community after working as an in-home therapist and visiting homes of children who had no books. Cummings believes literacy is a fundamental human right. Her work highlights inspiring messages that remind us all it is never too late to begin again.
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