Temporarily Unbalanced: Stephanie on Survival Mode

I’m counting on the fact that this doesn’t last forever. The first 14 months of Eva’s life felt very much unbalanced. Hugely unbalanced. I have to say that little school has changed that for the better. It gives her something that, in turn, has given something back to me. Now that I’m enjoying some normalcy, I’m feeling less sure about jumping into all that again. I’m no longer blissfully unaware of what I’m about to do like I was before Eva came, but at least I now know that it eventually gets better. What I worry about now is how blissfully unaware I am of what it will be like with two kids.

Smoke is billowing out of my ears.

This piece originally appeared as a comment on Survival Mode.