The things we do for love

Going to school, teaching and raising a family leads to a life of continual priority confrontation. I was able to stay at home and "be there" for my two older children, and then began to substitute when my youngest started middle school. There have been days and moments at my present position, when I've received that long dreaded call " mom, I'm throwing up and I don't know know what I should do". These were very hard moments, esp. since I was not able to hand my SDC class off to another teacher. Mine is not the kind of class that most general ed. teachers can deal with comfortably. Guilt/ Guilt on both mother and teacher levels. I have also run into a problem when I need to write a paper at the same time my college age daughter or my Jr. in High School need help writing papers of their own. Pretty much, my work needs to slide to the back of the desk until their work is finished and their questions answered. I have to make sure that there is never any doubt that they and their dad were always my first priorities. Its probably not the general attitude of many if not most working wife/mothers today, but... for me, it is hard, but very key!