What’s the hard­est part of work­ing full time, going to school in the evenings and hav­ing a family?

I’m on track to grad­u­ate in 3 years and a sum­mer from a 4 year evening pro­gram; that’s great. My wife’s on board, despite the fact that she has the hard­est role to play — basi­cally that of a sin­gle mother.

I see my kids on the week­ends and the youngest wakes up before I leave, and that’s hard; but my wife deals with them every day. She makes them break­fast, gets the old­est to school in the morn­ing and drops the youngest off at the babysit­ter, goes to her part time job, picks them up and watches them, goes out with them, gives them din­ner, bathes them and puts them to bed by her­self — a job not made any eas­ier by being pregnant.

I think the guilt that I’m mak­ing life harder for her cou­pled with the help­less­ness that it’s still the best thing I can pos­si­bly do at this point is the hard­est thing to deal with.