Tag: prioritizing

"Marriage is not 50-50, Divorce is 50-50.  Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn’t dividing everything in half, it’s giving it everything you’ve got." ~ Anonymous

Our first baby is due on Christmas Eve…" a work colleague was telling me, with excitement about what he called his entry into adulthood. I still remember my own rocky transition across this adulthood divide. As most any parent will attest, there is nothing quite like the singular occupation which happens the moment a newborn baby is laid in your hands. It’s an all-consuming love which like it or not often lays waste to all the other pastimes, hobbies and ways of knowing oneself that came before.