Blue Christmas

This Christmas will be different. Doesn't mean it won't happen. As Mr. Keillor once said: 

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." 

And yet, not quite "together."
One member of our family will not be with us this Christmas. That happens in many families around the holidays. But this is a kid that will be missing for the first time at the holidays. This Christmas is the first that siblings will be apart. So in many ways it will be a blue Christmas this year.

parenting

children

divorce

"Say goodnight, Gracie"

There comes a time in life when you know realize you have to cut your losses and move on.

It is time to move again. 

Won't be the first time I have moved my family. There has been so much lost and so much unwelcome change.
It is just time to find a place where the changing needs of my family can be accommodated and where we can rebuild and hopefully regain some of what has been lost.

life

musings

children

divorce