A Scare for Mommy

I have been considering how much I have learned from my mistakes over the course of my lifetime. When I was a teenager, I learned to drive a  far distance from the car in front of me after crashing my dad’s Jeep while playing hooky from school. As an adult, I learned not to rush and to be aware after I knocked off a stock pot hanging from a rafter while putting away groceries and broke my nose. Yet, even with these lessons, I still understood that sometimes whether you survive or not is just a matter of luck. When I had a kid, that thought scared me so much, I tried to just push it out of my mind.

However, today, that realization came back and so did the fear. Read more »