Mid March

He always makes time to cuddle
our sweet baby

Well, it has arrived. The time that's been looming over our heads for about a year now: Mid March.

Mid March is when I have to go back to work. When my days spent breastfeeding and bouncing my sweet angel baby all day long are all over. When Grace's world gets rocked for 3 days a week because it isn't the all-Grace show all the time. But if that was all that mid-March meant to us, that might not be so bad.

It also means the kick off of our family business season.

It means that simultaneously, when I will begin working, Brian will kick off the busiest season of his life, launching his business in Detroit. Not only will he be working full time at his regular job, but he'll be working full time on his additional job. And it's no joke. The season has barely launched, and he is already working on it every waking moment.

This is going to be hard.

It's going to be hard on me, going back to teaching, taking calls for Indy, doing daycare drop offs and pickups, bath time, bedtime and all the night time wake ups every single night.

A much simpler time

It's going to be hard on Brian, working full days in Ann Arbor, then driving to Detroit to put in another 6-8 hours of work, plus 12 hour workdays Saturdays and Sundays. He will have truly no rest.

It's going to be hard on our marriage. We will need to avoid getting caught up in who has it harder, who is doing more work, who needs to help more. All we can do is our best to support each other, help out when we can, show each other love any way we can and I know we'll survive.  We are and always have been a great team.

I'm excited for our family business to grow and to see what it will become.  We're lucky that we have my parents here and they are a huge help already. I'm excited to see my students and my coworkers and to be out of the house.  I'm dreading this time, but I know there will be good out of this. 

Mid March is here, whether we're ready for it or not.