Someone needed to be available when school called.
Someone needed to stay home when Owen had a fever.
Someone needed to take the kids to appointments.
Someone needed to remember picture day, library day, dentist appointments, parent meetings, birthday parties, soccer practice, grocery shopping, and the endless list of things that somehow appeared on the family calendar.
Hannah became that person.
I was the one whose career kept moving.
I work in operations for a fairly large company.
Most mornings I’m out the door before seven, and I’m rarely home before six.
My days are meetings, deadlines, budgets, employees calling with problems, and a boss who somehow remembers what he needs from me five minutes before I’m supposed to leave.
There are days when I spend ten hours solving problems that seem impossible, only to come home and realize there are still three more problems waiting for me.
