I'm wary to confide this. Perhaps I'm even just imagining it. I'll write it down and see if it still rings true: I feel a little bit of breathing room.
It is 6:07AM on a weekday; nobody else is awake. I slept enough. There are about 20 important things I could and should do, but there's actually nothing that I HAVE to do.
With each birth in the family, there have been more demands on my time. As demands on my time have multiplied, it seems that my capacity to manage has grown as well. My capacity to let things slide has grown in equal measure, but I'm still juggling more than I could have ever imagined when Noah was a baby.
However, since Noah left for Bulgaria about a year ago, Joyce started school a few months later, and then Danny decided to stay in the USA at the beginning of this year, demands on my time have plateaued, and, just recently, even shown signs of dropping.
The tide might have turned, but it still feels like high tide. It's just that, every now and again, one of the waves isn't as high as I expect. Like this morning. I feel a little bit of breathing room.
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Danny's senior pictures, taken in Utah with the Jorgensen twins and their 3-year exchange student, Bobby:
BOOKS
from the last month or so...
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| What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty - thanks for the recommendation, Jen! |
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| Using the Piano to Help Raise Your Family by Fifield and Aikele. A booklet more than a book. I knew the Aikeles and watched their family implement this philosophy. |
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| Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Towards a Better Understanding by Hales and Hales. Interesting and historically useful, but I found myself disagreeing so often with the authors' assumptions that I found it a frustrating book overall. |
