Here’s a typical day for me:

4:30 a.m. – The alarm rings. Time to get up. My husband Joe gets ready for work while I pack something for breakfast, which he’ll eat at break. He doesn’t want to eat this early. It seems by the time he gets all his medicine taken, he isn’t hungry.

5:10 a.m. – Joe leaves for work.

6 a.m. – I walk over to daughter Loretta and Dustin’s house. Dustin is leaving for work. Loretta and the boys are still in bed. Seven-month-old Kylie wakes up, and I change her diaper and make a bottle for her. I lay her back in her bed after some snuggles. I take a nap on the recliner.

7:30 a.m. – Byron wakes up but goes back to sleep on the recliner with me. He turned 2 on Aug. 7.

8:10 a.m. – Denzel, 3, wakes up and smiles when he sees I’m there. He crawls onto the recliner wit

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