My Family Told Me Not to Show Up to the Baby Shower—So I Sent a Helicopter Instead

see you. Sometimes the only way to be included was to make absolutely certain they couldn’t exclude you anymore.

Was it dramatic? Yes. Was it excessive? Probably. But was it effective?

I looked around at my family—at my niece in my arms, at my mother smiling at me with genuine warmth, at my father nodding with actual respect, at Amber sitting beside continue reading …