That Missing Feeling

Helping children balance that missing feeling after their parents' divorce. Mias life feels split in two after her parents get divorced even her cat and dog now live in two separate places. When shes at her dads house, Mia misses her moms jokes and singing. And when shes at her moms house, she misses her dads laugh and cooking. Mia just cant quite shake that missing feeling. Sometimes that missing feeling makes her angry. And sometimes it makes her sad. One day when Mia visits her Grandpa, he gives her a little blue notebook saying, When I write about Grandma, I am sad but I am happy too. She is gone, but you are here. Life changes, and writing helps me think about these changes. My notebook is a home for my heart. Mia keeps her notebook wherever she goes, writing about happy and sad memories. And soon her notebook becomes a way to balance that missing feeling. And also a home for her heart.