The First
The first blog post. Here it goes. I sit here while my kids play in their rooms. It is 18 minutes until bedtime. Lights out bedtime and we haven’t even started bedtime routine. No doubt in my mind that in approximately 2 minutes the kids will either fight with each other or fight with their Dad and I about the fact that it is bedtime yet again in their life. How many times does it have to be bedtime. Dad and I don’t like bedtime but we do love after bedtime. We are off duty once those kids get their goodnight squooshes. ( okay we like to pretend we are off duty, but parents are never off duty.) In those too few minutes between the kids bedtime and the parents bedtime we finally get to try and relax. Hahahaha! Like that ever happens but we do try. The dishes are never done, there are toys out, laundry to be done and so on. Life is joyous, crazy, sad, scary and every emotion in between. See, I live with anxiety. Most days it is manageable, some days non existent , but days lik...