What Are You Planning For The Holidays?

[Deep]

First of all, I wish everyone a good holiday season, and pray that the nature of the special occasions coming up would bring back good memories, shared histories, togetherness and draw your families closer, wherever you may be in your sitch right now.

But yes, it can be a hard time as well.

About what seems a million years and 2 Christmases ago, I was truly dreading this time of year. A W in name, pining away for OM, 2 kids ignorant of how bad things were and on edge from the tension. Honestly, there were times it felt better if W and I were apart. We had booked a trip to Ca, NV, Disneyland before the bomb and just to avoid disappointing the kids, we went ahead. There were good parts, and some pretty bad parts, but importantly, just the sheer logistics and traveling kept us busy and civil and doing "the right things". Beats staring at the wall and wondering which one of us was going to press the "escalation" button.