Chapter Twenty-Nine: Breaking the Cycle of Mom Guilt

“Hey Mom, want to go mountain biking?”

I did not, in fact, want to go mountain biking. But as any parent of kids will tell you, we can’t take another sleepless night of worrying about this pandemic’s robbing us of positive memories as we race against the clock of their childhoods. Framed in this light, I had no other choice, really, but to agree to Tyler’s request.