To All the Parents Whose Children's Holiday Vacations Start Now
To all the parents whose children's holiday vacations start now, I wish you great endurance, patience, and some peace somehow - somewhere - within your holiday vacation. And to all of the single mothers out there doing this alone, I bow down and kiss your feet . . . May you have a strong and loving community to assist you through those moments you are being attacked from all angles and want to pull your hair out and have visions and sweet dreams of strapping your child in a straight jacket with tape across their mouth while you do your hair and paint your nails while talking on the phone to your girlfriends like maybe you used to do the pre-terror ages. Somehow writing this, though albeit not 100% accurate tale, made me feel very warm inside. On a more PC note -- let us truly try and share our love and warm smiles, and find the strength within us to teach our children something more about this holiday season than just receiving gifts and having us parents jump to their every whi...