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"Peter has the kids till the end of the week, since they&amp;#039;re on their Christmas break right now, so I was left to my own devices last night. I ended up channel surfing during dinner and landed on the Hallmark Channel, and a charming little romantic comedy titled &amp;quot;The Holiday&amp;quot;, with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black. It was light and fluffy and fun and poignant and seemed to be just what I needed - until.... Until Cameron Diaz tells Jude Law her life story, and mentions that she was fifteen when her parents split up, and it hit her really, really hard because she didn&amp;#039;t see it coming. They were all so happy, or so she believed. When they sat her down to tell her, she&amp;#039;d thought they were joking until she saw her Dad&amp;#039;s suitcase packed and standing in the corner. Ooomph. That one hit me right in the solar plexus, and I was transported back to the night we told Anna we were divorcing, and the total confusion and disbelief on her face. Her first words were &amp;quot;This is a joke, right?&amp;quot; I still remember the weeks afterward as she tried to make sense of the situation. &amp;quot;Aren&amp;#039;t we happy? I don&amp;#039;t understand! You love him, I know you do.&amp;quot; I suddenly felt like I was watching a grown-up Anna, who was still trying to make sense out of it all, all those years later. Stupid, I know. Anna&amp;#039;s life isn&amp;#039;t scripted like a movie, and really, she&amp;#039;s made a lot of sense out of the situation already. She even told me that she hopes I meet somebody soon, because I deserve a great guy. She loves her Dad, but she just doesn&amp;#039;t see us together anymore. &amp;quot;You guys are so different,&amp;quot; she says now. She&amp;#039;s right. But I still (and will always to some degree) feel like we dropped a bomb on her and her brother because they didn&amp;#039;t see it coming. We never fought in front of them - hell, we almost never fought, period. How could they have known? Have you ever had a movie - or maybe just a scene or a line in a movie - hit you hard like that? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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