Ohmmmm, Ohmmmm

Friday is creeping up on us and it's making it really hard to think of anything else. It's so frightening and I feel so helpless to do anything to keep us from falling into a financial pit.

We've been through this before. After the toddler was born we were out of work. I was an About guide, one of the 300 hundred they got rid of after 9/11. The husband lost his job at the same time. He was out of work for over a year. You can see why this terrifies me so much.

We had savings, unemployment, and little bits we brought in here and there. That got us by. But we haven't built back up our savings yet. And, of course, the pressure to bring something in through my writing is giving me writer's block. I'm having a hard time even writing here, and this has been the only place I've been able to write for weeks now.

Deep breaths. We will make it through this. We have to. The only other option is giving up and I've never been good at that.