My 9 Year Old Found a Note Telling Us to Move Out Before Christmas So I Packed in Silence

below, and felt something she had not expected. Not happiness exactly, and not the absence of fear. But the relief of a person who has stopped waiting for someone else to make a decision and has made one herself. The apartment was hers in a way the basement had never been, however much she had paid for it, because it had been chosen on her own terms continue reading …