** It has been some time since I last wrote. Somehow five kids and a full-time job leave little time for such things as writing…
"FACT IS, we can't fully be at home and fully at work at the same time -- not even if work is in the next room. Work and life don't overlap so much as they collide or intersect -- leaving us to sit in our ergonomically correct swivel chairs and pivot between the two. And each time we turn toward one, we are, in that moment, turning away from the other."
From Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom by Lisa Belkin
5:00 a.m. -- I have been up several hours in the night with a sick child. As I lay awake I wonder, “Is he too sick for daycare?”
I make the phone call and send the e-mails – I won’t be in today. Classes are cancelled. Teachers are notified.
