You deserve all the medals for surviving parents...I know that feeling and I always feel like indulging in a large drink and a spa day after I get through a visit with my mother where no one has ended up dead...

And way to go on all the writing...I finished up the last (major) part of The Weight of a Man, and while that was going to be the end of it, I find I can't give up my boys yet, so I'm going to finish out the remaining 13 of the 30-ficlets series.