Long Time Gone

There is a line from a Dixie Chicks song that has been running though my head these last few weeks.


"Long time gone now
And it ain't comin' back again"

My hopefulness as a parent has been missing for a while now. It has been really hard to be "the Mom" these last few months. At first I really beat myself up over it. I kept trying to make everything right for everyone in our family but it was not working and I was taking it all very personally. It started in the summer and I kept plowing through thinking that if I worked hard enough I could make it all work...

The rest is at Hopeful Parents, go visit.