Lisa at Grandma's Briefs talks today about how the pressures of life sometimes come to be represented by a brace of numbers. She ends each post with a question, and today's is this: What numbers are currently causing you distress -- or elation?
I realized that numbers do express both my anxieties and my joys right now.
12.5...weeks until I retire.
20...hours a week I work until then.
40...hours a week I spend doing daycare for the grands
3...major work projects I'm trying to finish
2...beautiful kids who bring me inestimable joy
6:45...the hour they arrive each morning
0...blog posts since a week ago.
and last but not least,
25...years with Peter; our anniversary comes up soon