Crying on thanksgiving

As a single father, it's often hard to feel like I'm doing anything right. Constantly feeling behind or like somethings lacking. Always feeling insufficient.Well two days ago my daughter comes up to me: "Dad, I have some questions. They're about mom."Mom died nine years ago when daughter was 2.Anyways she starts with the obvious "what did she look like?" Because I don't keep pictures around of her. I have one remaining in my home office, neatly tucked away underneath my piles of pictures of my daughter throughout her life. It's a picture of my late wife smiling as she held our daughter in the hospital.That picture is now with a much better owner.Then it was "how'd she die?"My wife died from a woman running a red light and sending her into the concrete guards of a construction site.After various questions of who she was and why I loved her I got up and plainly told my daughter "I can't answer anymore questions right now. If you want we can continue tomorrow, but I need some alone time." And that was that. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2zmlU9c