Originally Posted by
Lolobug 
...I look at some of the pretty decorated houses that families go and visit and wonder how warm and wonderful it would be to have a mom to go visit like that at Christmas.
Just wanted to add something that a friend in ACOA told me: Try to avoid comparing your insides with someone else's outsides...just because their house (or their body/face/car, etc...) is decorated and looks good, doesn't mean they are necessarily happier than you.
It helped me...