I Said No to Babysitting. My Sister Sent Her Kids to My Old Address in a Taxi Anyway. She Didn’t Know I’d Moved. The Woman Who Answered the Door Was a CPS Detective.

months after the permanent order, Tyler came to find me while I was making dinner, approached with the serious deliberateness he brought to things that mattered to him, and asked if he could call me Mom instead of Aunt Cristiana.

I was managing three things simultaneously in the kitchen and it stopped me completely.

“You already have a mom,” I said, continue reading …