New found respect

This past week I have been introduced to a new stage in life, the life of a single parent. My wife and daughter are off taking care of my mother-in-law who just had double knee replacement surgery. I have been working from my home office and taking care of my son by myself. The transition took a while and I tell you, it is not an easy thing to do. I have found new respect for those who do this on an everyday basis. Trying to make sure that everything is taken care of, balancing the needs of my son with a long schedule of conference calls and 10 hour work days. I am very lucky that my job has been flexible enough not to require me to be in the office over this last week and instead I connect to the intranet over specialized VPN software to gain my access to the things I need. Other parents are not that lucky and have to depend on their schedules being balanced just right in order to make everything run smoothly. To those of you who do this on an everyday basis, I salute you.