There’s a weight I carry every time I walk through that door.
Not loud, not dramatic… just constant.
Like I’m already thinking about the next move before I even sit down.
You see me coming home late…
but you don’t see everything that came before that moment.
I come home just as the sky begins to lighten, after a day that never really stops.
I sit beside you for those few quiet hours we get, knowing I’m already on borrowed time.
When I wake up, I stay with you… with us… with our child…
because I know once I leave, I’m gone until the day is already over again.
We’re already parents. There’s no off switch.
Every day is responsibility, pressure, love, and exhaustion all mixed together.
And with another baby on the way, I feel that clock louder than anything else.
I’m not out there wasting time.
I’m trying to build something we don’t have to question.
A place that’s ours. A life that’s stable.
Something that doesn’t fall apart the second we look away.
I don’t need credit…
but I need you to understand what this actually costs me.
In the silence after midnight, I’m still moving.
Still carrying everything that didn’t get finished.
Still thinking about what’s next before this even ends.
You might see me walk in late…
but I’ve been gone way longer than that.
After those few hours with you, when everything gets quiet… I leave again.
Back to the work, the planning, the pressure of making this real.
Every wall, every detail, every decision… it’s all part of something bigger.
I’ve got the materials ready now.
Wood stacked. Everything lined up.
The vision isn’t just in my head anymore… it’s sitting there waiting on me.
I’m bringing my people together.
Getting everything in place the way I see it.
Because I know exactly what this can be if I stay locked in.
And I am locked in.
No matter what people say.
No matter what it looks like from the outside.
No matter what I have to miss or sacrifice to get there.
I’m not trying to live like everybody else…
running in circles, stressing over things that never end.
I’m trying to build something that frees us.
I don’t want you working yourself down just to say we have a place to stay.
I don’t want survival to be the goal.
I want peace.
I want to be able to leave the house without thinking about what’s falling apart behind us.
I want us to take trips… go to Disney… disappear for a few days…
and not feel like everything’s about to collapse while we’re gone.
I want the only numbers we talk about…
to be the ones coming in… not the ones we owe.
And one day… this part ends.
The noise slows down.
The pressure isn’t sitting on our chest anymore.
.
Just space… quiet… and time.
Time to sit.
Time to breathe.
Time to actually enjoy what we built.
We’re not talking about what we’re behind on anymore…
we’re talking about where we’re going next.
What trip we’re taking.
What memory we’re making.
And for the first time…
we’re not trying to catch up to life—
we’re finally living it.
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