She is tired. She is overwhelmed. She’s running this ship alone while you wait to be told what to do. She is hoping one day you don’t await her instructions, and you just do the thing that needs to be done.
"I cried today. I cried with you as you checked in, full of tears, that your family could not join you for this joyous time. Right now, all over the nation, labor and delivery units are on strict isolation."
"The bad news is that kids’ work ethic is in a crisis and we, parents, have a lot to do with it... Why are we misleading our children? We are telling our kids a fairy tale."
Sometimes I can see tears in your eyes and I wonder why you’re sad. I hear you talking to friends and saying you ‘don’t feel like yourself lately.’ I don’t understand because to me you are so perfect.
"I think my stepdaughter might have assumed I changed my shirt because I’m old (in her eyes), and old moms don’t wear 'sexy' stuff. Or maybe it was because I was married to her dad and didn’t need to look sexy anymore. And while it was true that I respected her father, that was just the tip of the iceberg."
