To all the other parents out there who are separated from your children this Christmas, I’m with you. My kids left yesterday for eight nights away with their dad, my ex. Never mind the fact that two hours earlier upstairs I was counting down the minutes until the kids left. I wrapped and donated gifts to the Mount Sinai Children’s Hospital to distract myself after the kids left. But as soon as the kids really leave, the quiet and stillness at home becomes as deafening and depressing as the chaotic cacophony was crazy-making.

Source: Huffington Post December 25, 2017 21:56 UTC