Today is the first day back to school after break. We are breaking into my mother’s house to steal an Ugly Sweater at 5 in the morning because it is Ugly Sweater Day and we have driven home from a gathering through the night up and down hilly, unlit, back roads where we saw a family of deer who spoke to us to tell us we were on the wrong road and they directed us back to a traffic-filled highway and on the roof we have tied some old evergreen branches that we will try to form into a tree because we forgot to get a Christmas tree when we had to take my son to the emergency room because he was spouting blood from his finger and while we were there my other son had a bloody nose and they were going to take him into surgery… But then I woke up. The first day of school is not until tomorrow. Today is January 4. It is the Changing of Seasons around here. Changing from the season of sleeping in and wearing pajamas, drinking 5 cups of coffee, some w...
balancing life, work, and family