This morning we had a pool party for my son's baseball team. By the time we came home and had lunch everyone needed a nap. When we woke up it was almost dinner time. I cleaned up the house and we had dinner, this was all we could do today. I thought about just how high maintenance our basic life is right now and I worried about the future.

A friend called me this evening and asked if I were going to an event at my home group. In our conversation my friend also asked me about fishing. I realized just how little people really understand how high maintenance our basic life is right now. Even people who have had kids of their own.

Today my wife and I got angry at each other a couple o times but I immediately had to consider whether my desires and ambitions were more important than her.