This is my Be Present Project.

I woke up one day and my daughters were 6 and 4 years old. I couldn’t believe all those years were already gone. I certainly didn’t sleep through it all (believe me, those girls kept me up plenty of nights!) but the realization that these years were going by so fast really hit me. Hard.

This was the treadmill I was on: working a demanding job well more than 40 hours a week, working a lot of nights from home, evenings consisting of quickly cooking dinner and the three B’s (baths, books and bed). And, I admit that I was checking email throughout it all. I felt like I didn’t have time to breathe, that I was missing…