I'm glad you're finding ways to pause, or at least, scheduling time to pause! The regular exercise will be so awesome...I swear, in one week of hitting the gym, my patience has increased, it seems.  I have been concerned for you, just by reading your tweets alone. Not for your patience, but maybe your sanity! :)Maybe it's because my life is usually very un-busy - that's just the place we're at, in our family. I know it will get busier as time goes on...but I was frantically busy during my 20's, out of the house 4 or 5 nights a week (and not having FUN, per se, but much of it church commitments, and work!). Having Thomas slowed me the heck down, for sure. 

And what is it that Anne Lamott says? "No is a complete sentence." I swear I need that tattoed on my arm! But it's so hard to say NO when you love to say YES!