I can't help it. I just get incredibly jealous.

"Tell me," Jackson urges, feeling the shift in my emotions, tightening his arms

around me.

"I just want to do that," I say, laughing a little, shaking my head, feeling petulant. "It sounds so cool, and important, and... vivid. I want to do that work, Jacks. I want to help."

He nods, humming his understanding, letting me have the space to speak.

"I just...Jacks, I don't know if I'm going to be a very normal kind of mom," I say quietly, worried about it. "I don't think I can do it."

"What's a normal mom?" Jackson asks, genuinely curious.

"Like my mom," I say quietly. "Dedicated to raising the kids and keeping the family together. Letting the man in the house take charge."

"She does more than that."

"I know," I say on a sigh. "But...mom and dad fall into some really normal gender roles. It works for them. Family has always come first for mom - she loves it."

don't think

the window at our vast and beautiful country. "But I love other things too. I think I'm more like my dad. I think I want and need to have more

okay with that." Jackson gives me a warm little nudge with his nose, letting me know that he means it. “If it helps, I don't think I'm going to be a normal dad either. Mostly because I have no idea what

him, smiling up into his face. "You're

cuddle closer, pressing a kiss

everything we can to love and raise these girls," Jackson murmurs "And...I don't have any knowledge to

they don't?" I ask, a little smile playing at my

that he has no idea what he's talking about. Or what

have the

burst out laughing and

snatching me close, pressing me to him and letting me feel precisely how much I'm loved. Which is a great

be great at it," Jackson whispers, kissing my

I say on a sigh, resting against him. "We are, aren't

through him alongside his very real worry that we have no idea what we're doing. But the confidence wins. We're going to figure it out and love the hell out

Jackson says.

want to do?" I whisper, turning my head to look

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