As I go about my new life of caring for Jana, I constantly wonder, how on earth did you do it?You, who raised not one, not two, but six children. I'm still feeling shock waves from the change and upheaval one child has made in my life, and I know that what I have experienced so far is only a glimpse, the barest hint, of all you went through raising us.
“You learn to sacrifice when you have children.”was one of your stock phrases when I was growing up. To you, sacrifice was a necessary virtue, an accepted part of parenthood. But I didn't go for that. I considered sacrifice not only unnecessary, but unfashionable and downright unappealing as well.