My Husband Showed Up with a Cast on His Leg the Day Before Our First Family Vacation – Then I Got a Call That Changed Everything

The night before our first family vacation, my husband came home with his leg in a cast. I wanted to cancel, but he insisted I take the kids anyway. Then a stranger called and told me to rush home because my husband was hiding something from me.

What I saw when I got home broke me.

We had twin girls, and for most of their lives, vacations were something other people talked about.

Other families. The ones who didn’t sit at the kitchen table on Sunday nights with a calculator and a stack of bills, deciding which one could wait another week.

There was never “extra.”

There was only making it to next month.

So when my husband and I both got promoted that year, within weeks of each other, it felt unreal.

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