You can't always get what you want

Some days are diamonds. This wasn't one of them. 

Evan, now eight and a half months old, spent a couple of hours with me tonight while his dad is working and his mom had to go to a meeting. It was Evan's first time away from his mom, and he did pretty well for the first forty-five minutes. Bella and I sang "The Wheels on the Bus." She made him some rattles to shake. We played a little xylophone, a little bouncy-bear, a little rocking chair and harmonica. At forty-five minutes he began to whimper. When we hit the one-hour mark, it was all over. Bella and I did everything we could, but he wanted his mama and nothing else in the world.

It was his first time to learn a lesson he'll be learning for the rest of his life.