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An Avocado Accident and Emergency Room Visit!

An Avocado Accident and Emergency Room Visit! Less than two weeks after leaving home and launching on his own, our son ended up in the emergency room.  June 15th 2021.  It was about 1 a.m. and I was busy editing a video while wearing my headphones and charging my cell phone, so I didn’t hear the buzz from my text messages coming in. Kenton, my husband, comes darting out of the bedroom to tell me Khalid, aka son #1, just…

How coming to America changed my family

If you look up the definition of "family" in most dictionaries it usually involves the words " parents" or "parent" plus "children". It is inferred that the parent raised the children or lives with the children to form a bond or unit or family. To be honest, the traditional definition of family does not always reflect society today. As you know, the family may not always involve people who share the same biology or genetics. Family may not always mean…