Support

This week I'm grateful for people who love me and love my children.

Ben has outdone himself with fixing things around the house, taking kids to do fun things, and keeping things like laundry and dishes and homework together while I wrote like a madwoman last week.

This week mom is here, and I've made such dramatic progress that I can't even stand it!  I mean, I haven't written 9 pages in one day since before Bee made her appearance!

I'm sure I could finish the dissertation without help with those things.  But my life would be a sad, sad, sleep-deprived shadow of the good thing that it is with their help.

And so I'm glad for support - not just the verbal "Go get 'em, tiger!" kind of support, but money-and-time-where-your-mouth-is support.