Permission
This year is the first one since the crash where we stayed home for Thanksgiving. We usually go away to soothe our souls with mountain air and breath-giving views. However peaceful it might seem, that still brings its own level of stress due to packing clothes, food, emotions, and expectations for five. Instead, we stayed home and had a quiet holiday. We spent the 26th tree finding and trimming as the boys would have loved, and then, Dan and I took this past week off from wor