Holly Richardson: You never know when today will be ‘The day before’

“Mom, the smoke detector is going off and it’s not dinner.” Those were the words my teenage daughter said to me when I answered the phone in May 2005. My husband and I were taking a different daughter out on a birthday date and hadn’t even been gone for 20 minutes.By the time we got back home, fire trucks were in front of the house and smoke was coming out of the top of our second story. Everyone was out safely, including the two little boys that had been in the bathtub.