What I’ve learned spending every Friday with my toddler

By 9:30 a.m. it was just Aspen and myself. I’d dropped off the older two, Tristan and Norah, at school, and Mel, my wife, had left for class. Every Friday for the past 7 Fridays had been like this (I don’t usually work Fridays). It was Mel’s last term of school, and she was out of options for online classes, so she tried to make sure that most of her on…