My plan For those of you that know me personally know I am a planner. I like to know what is going on, I like to have control. Back when I was on maternity leave with Theodore I vividly remember sitting in our green layzboy rocking him one morning and coming up with a plan for how I was going to get to stay home with him after we had our second child. I remember sitting there trying to calculate in my head and justify to myself that he was going to spend half of his life up until Baby #2 arrived being watched by a sitter while I went back to teaching and that wasn’t that bad. I so wanted to stay home with my baby boy, but we just couldn’t quite afford it yet. Christmas Card 2015 The 15-16 school year went by surprisingly quickly. Theodore had a wonderful sitter who watched him and my nephew, Jack. The boys would rotate between our house and his cousins’ house every 2 weeks. It was a great set up. We so enjoyed being a family of 4: Brian, Theodore, Chuck, and I. I wor