breathe

I have to keep telling myself that.  When things get crazy, it becomes a silent chant.  It gets me through the various panics that seem to temporarily immobilize the girls.  It moves me through the moments when it suddenly strikes me that this really is life now.  Funny thing is, it works. 

ready or not

Tomorrow marks my unofficial return to the full-time work world--A world from which I have been absent since May of 2006. Tomorrow will also mark the beginning of new roles for the girls...And while my eldest has definitely felt this burden since the Hay's birth and Mitchell's diagnosis, this will be the first time they are being asked to do so much.