Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong...

Oompow,” which I would translate for you but it’s devastatingly embarrassing.