When I first decided to start writing a blog my hope was to
point out all the little things that can go without realizing in our daily
lives, the things that make our days easier, our lives simpler, our time more
valuable. The little things that can
sometimes make you stop and say “at least….”.
When I first set out to write a blog I was a mom of 2 toddlers, I was a
mom of 2 toddlers who were home with me all day, I was a wife of someone that
was healthy, that had a fairly decent job, I was worried about our future (as
all moms are) but knew things would get better, that we would move to a better
house, a better community, that our children would go great schools (this is
where being a teacher and a mom sucks) there was hope.
Today I am a mom of 2
children who attend school (one part-time preschool, one full time first
grade), I am a wife to a husband who never knows when a seizure will strike
(despite being on medication), I am
trying to hold my world together while falling apart inside, we are in a new
house that we prematurely thought was going to be a great move for us and
turned out to be not so great, my children are in great schools with amazing
teachers who love them, we like so many American’s are fighting a losing battle
with the economy.
As I sit typing this
Mr. O is preparing to take a leave of absence from work again (code: go back to
on TDI) to focus on his health, something I know he has to do but at the same
time scaring the life out me, leaving me with more questions than answers,
leaving me more stressed than reassured, leaving me more short tempered with my
children than I ever wanted to be. I’m
not writing this down because I’m looking for sympathy, or looking for a
shoulder to cry on, I’m writing this down because it is what is in my heart
right now.
Right now all of the
little things have added up to one big thing, a big thing that is completely
out of my control, a big thing that has me worried. So for now instead of taking one day at a
time I need to take one hour at a time and if that is too much than I will cut
it down and take 15 minutes at a time. I will try to make sure my children aren’t
aware of the craziness that is happening around them, make sure that they always
come first, make sure that I try to find at least one little things each day to
be thankful for.
