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"Last night, I asked David if he had any homework for school. &amp;quot;I have to make a picture,&amp;quot; he replied. So I dutifully pulled out the crayons, markers and colored pencils, found some blank paper and sat him down at the table. Then I opened his folder to see if there were instructions as to what kind of picture he had to make, and discovered that he didn&amp;#039;t have to make one at all. He had to bring in a family photograph. And that&amp;#039;s kind of hard to do when his family is in two different houses in two different states now, and they haven&amp;#039;t all been photographed together in years. I had a real dilemma. Do I send in a picture of me with the kids, and exclude his Dad? That&amp;#039;s not right. Do I send in two pictures, and leave David (with his limited vocabulary) to explain why he has two instead of one? Do I photoshop an old picture of Peter into a recent one of us? That just seemed wrong, as well. I finally got up in the attic, rummaged through the Christmas stuff, and found an old family photo of us visiting a local attraction, riding in a sleigh and wearing Christmas hats. I had both kids on my lap in the front, and Peter was behind us, apart by choice even then. It was a few years old, but it would have to do. David looked at it a moment and said &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s my Daddy. And he used to be riding in the car with us.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s his way of saying he remembers when Dad was still around. I&amp;#039;m sure there&amp;#039;s a lot more he&amp;#039;d like to say, but that&amp;#039;s enough for me. I know how it feels for him because I still feel it too, sometimes. Did you ever have an awkward situation like that - where you have to explain why you&amp;#039;re not a &amp;quot;standard&amp;quot; family anymore, or compensate for the fact that you&amp;#039;re not? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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