Restart (A truly great YA novel if you haven't read it)

 At least three major things have happened since I wrote that last piece…”Never…”  possibly 2-300 more but I will try to be brief. 

I had the baby for one.  He’s perfect.  He’s 6 now and wild and courageous and everything I never could have imagined.  

The world shut down for another thing.  That was a disaster I never want to experience again but am so proud I survived, surrounded by the best community possible.  

And as if all that weren’t enough, we moved across the country.  All six of us and my mother in law and started over in a state I swore to never visit again let alone reside in.  And of course, somehow, it has become my home.  Not my true home. I know more and more that we are mere sojourners on this journey.  But a home none the less, full of love, laughter, tears, joy, freedom and growing.  So much growing! I just want to write about it all, before it all slips by.  

So, if you are here for that journey- that quest- buckle up because as I tell each and every one of my students “Life’s Hard….Wear a Helmet.”