AOTEAROA
The unfiltered reality of parenting from a screen half a world away. From navigating homesickness and missing the boys to the endless life admin, late-night scrolling, and the raw emotional toll of letting your babies chase big dreams. Written between the cracks of a full-time job, mostly — and the light of a phone screen at midnight, from Marcia's POV.
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Marcia
"Fourteen long-haul trips chaperoning basketball and I have opinions. Strong ones. Here's the list I wish someone had..."
Cooper
"Game day starts the night before. Gear laid out, bottle filled, phone on do-not-disturb by ten. Boring? Maybe...."
Hunter
"I'd pictured the call a hundred times. In every version I was calm. In the real one my..."
Val
"The third time I dropped Hunter at LAX, I almost didn't get out of the car. Not because..."
Marcia
"Two boys, two passports, one mother. What I learned dropping Hunter at LAX for the third time this year."