Taxi Mom

I once had a friend who told me that the "easy" part is when your kids are young.

She went on to describe the benefits of being in control of where they went, who they talked to, what they ate, etc. Her experience was that it was easier to work outside the home when your kids are in early elementary school. The tough juggling begins once they reach middle school and they begin to have their own lives.

Oh my...has there ever been anything truer said to me? Big Al and I are now juggling start and stop times are on work days. It looks like I might start going in a couple of days a week at 6:30 a.m., and one day starting late and ending even later - so the twins can attend, achieve and be all their pre-teen selfs scream they need to be.

And really, I wouldn't change it for the world. I was one of the shyest kids in school and it was awful. I'll take crazy, hectic taxi-driver mom days anyday over coaxing a child to attend anything.