Adulting is a Decision

And you can unmake it over and over

Adults and babies. (The author and her housemates, with the shadow of a dog.)

Our housemates moved out this week. They lived with us for three full years, through two human pregnancies and seven chicken deaths and a global pandemic. When they moved in, there were four of us; when they left, there were six.

When my husband and I bought this house — a creaky 1903 Victorian that was built to be a boarding house and has…