So much life had been happening. I know it doesn’t make sense, but to me… yeah. It does. Between the disability and losing both of my parents, I felt like I was suffocating. I wasn’t being the mom my kids deserve. I wasn’t taking proper care of myself. I wasn’t writing the way that I know I’m capable of.

Cue the end of Game of Thrones, and a promise I had made to a friend.

It’s been a five-day slumber party here in Niagara Falls. Five days of movies and Game of Thrones and just BEING.

It takes a special tribe to just BE. This wasn’t a “here, let’s go party” kind of time. Two of the three of us girls are dealing with too much pain to risk our health anymore. We have all needed this, an amazing few days of watching movies that I never would, and spending it with people who are amazing.

And I’m ready.

No, I really don’t want to leave, but I’m ready to go home. I am ready to be the mom my boys need. I am ready to sit and write and write and write some more until I get this first draft done.

All I needed was time to be. And the right tribe to be with.