This time 4 years ago, I was sitting on the floor in our tiny 2-bedroom apartment in Japan going over color and letter flashcards with Harper. She was just over a year old, and being on lockdown due to the pandemic, I didn’t have anything else to do BUT pour into my baby. I taught her a little silly but catchy song so she could to learn how to spell her name. 4 years later, she’s singing it to herself in her head as she writes her name on her papers at school (and she sung it in the interview when I asked her how to spell it 🥹). I see now that the time spent has not been in vain. The flashcards, the silly songs, the pretend play, the conversations that NEVER END because someone has a follow up question or asks, “why” a million times - it all matters. If you’re in the thick of parenting a baby or a toddler, know that all the little things count and turn into big things that are shaping your tiny human and preparing her for the future. And also, I must make being a wife look pretty f...