PTSD
“Finley, let’s brush your teeth at the sink like a big girl!” I scooped Finley up and wrapped her long legs around my torso.
“YEAH!” She exclaimed excitedly.
“I’m coming too.”…
“Finley, let’s brush your teeth at the sink like a big girl!” I scooped Finley up and wrapped her long legs around my torso.
“YEAH!” She exclaimed excitedly.
“I’m coming too.”…
“Mama, what are you doing?!” My big three stood there, mouths open, shocked by the catastrophic state of the front yard and of their mother. I was covered with…
“What am I doing?” I say to myself daily.
“I don’t know, Mama.” My kids often respond.
I pause, racking my brain why I just came into the kitchen, knowing there…
Abandoned. Rejected. Seen better days. Counted as trash. Sitting in a Chicago alley, where disowned furniture finds its way to the land fill, was a forest green, diamond patterned,…
“Mama, can I do anything to help?”
“Thank you…Just get in the van.” I said through clenched teeth as I wrestled a tantrum throwing Finley into her car seat.
It was…