Chapter 5Busy
When Sarah and the kids walked into the kitchen that morning Michael already had breakfast waiting for them. He wanted to make them eggs, but of course they were out of them. They ran out of a lot of things since they didn’t usually have much time to go shopping. Every day was a race against the clock to get the kids to school, get to work, get to meetings, get to after-school events, get dinner, get to bed, and get up and do it all again. Time to shop was a luxury.
“Daddy, will you be coaching basketball practice today?” his nine-year-old daughter asked, as they spent their usual 10 minutes of family time at the kitchen table. Michael looked at Sarah and then said, “I don’t know. Ask Mommy.”
“No, Daddy gets too intense and yells too much, which is not good for him right now,” said Sarah.
“You don’t think this is stressful?” Michael said, raising his voice as his seven-year-old son spilled his cereal bowl on the table. “If I can do this, I can coach. Same thing!”
“You only yell a little bit at home,” his son said with such naivety that Sarah and Michael burst out in laughter.
“Daddy will be coaching in a few weeks, but for right now he won’t be at practice,” Sarah said as Michael sighed.
“Time to make the bus,” Michael said as the family hopped up from the table and scattered to get their things. Of course, his son couldn’t find his shoes for a few minutes, and when he found them the laces were tied so tight that he couldn’t put them on. And, of course, they were ...
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