Garden Refuge

"Wait a second, I think it's raining." I told my sister who was on the phone. I squinted at my kitchen window and saw water falling down, but not like rain.... and then I realized the water wasn't outside, it was inside. I ran upstairs to find that in the ten minutes I'd been on the phone, my neurodivergent son had flooded the upstairs bathroom. That was only one of hundreds of disasters I tackled that summer. Summer can be a beautiful time of freedom: no school routines, lon