They Call It 'Vacay'

They were both excited about the vacation with their dad. They’d left Colorado when there were only three and four years old, so neither one could remember very much.

To help them loosen whatever memories they did have, I sent photos of some of the things we’d done when we’d all lived there.

Now my girls are seeing those places from their childhood again—Garden of the Gods, Seven Falls, even the houses we’d lived in.

They’re seeing them as a family—with their father, step-mother and step-brother.

But I’m not a part of it.

It isn’t my family now.