As she flipped through the worn pages, something unexpected caught her attention. Tucked between the handwritten rules was a faded note she had never noticed before.
The message had been written by her own late mother-in-law years earlier. It read, “A home survives through kindness, not control.”
Tabitha stared at those words for a long time. For the first time in years, she questioned the traditions she had defended so fiercely.
She quietly closed the notebook and sat in silence, thinking about everything that had happened-
