When I was 10 it was just Mom & I in that big old farmhouse. We had a dog, cats, chickens, a garden, a pig, a small pond with fish. I’d get home from school, do some homework and chores, and mom would come home from work 2 hours later. Dinner together, care for the animals, schoolwork, often a bath, then a cuddle and off to bed. One evening during dinner Mom said she had some news, maybe bad news. Her boss asked her to change her shift, to work later so she
