( wondering what if is the worst thing there is )

( The only way out is through everything she's running from. )

( Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. )

[Blame Disney. Dani is 6; Ben, Clint Jr., and Jake are all under 2.]

( Jake and the Never Land Pirates / Climb aboard, Me Hearties, and be a pirate true. / Let's go! With Jake and the Neverland Pirates / We'll set the course together - Come on and join the crew )

Muses mentioned with permission.

prompt: 2. "There will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope."
--John Connolly

( The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. )