Mothering Through Crisis

Picking up the pieces and carrying on

Photo by simonapilollatnf via Canva.

On a rainy Sunday evening, my entire world collapsed in the span of approximately 180 seconds.

Up until that point, I thought things had been going pretty well, all in all. But in hindsight, it’s easy to spot the cracks in the foundation, the pieces that had already come apart, optimistically reinforced over the preceding months and…