Drug

I'm addicted to Diet Coke... gave it up for four years, and had a glass in the fall, fell right off the wagon, hard. But my real drug is my kids. I gave a parent lecture at the local early intervention centre Monday. The boys were in school so I dropped the girls off at a friend before heading to the office, which brought me past the school. It was lunch time and the kids were out in the playground. I slowed to an embarrassingly slow rate, even for a school zone, in an effort to catch a glimpse of one of the boys. When I didn't see them, it was all I could do not to stop the car and turn around in an effort to see them for a moment... Diet Coke wakes me up and keeps headaches away, but the kids are the drug I can't resist.

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