Well, we did take a break just before New Years, despite an emotional maelstrom, and got over to Black Butte Ranch before touring over to the Camp Sherman to 'do' the Allingham Loop around the Metolius, on 8" or so of new white stuff. It was cold, fun, exhilarating and distracting; god knows we needed that.
Our children...are we ever anymore than an emotional breakdown away from them? It's not what they do sometimes but what is done TO them that messes you up. The instinct is to save them, hug them...love them. Sometimes 2 out of 3 is all you can do. It'll just have to be enough. But when will this heart ache end?