S1 and I already knew we would need to change.

We are both fiercely independent, to the point we almost never ask anyone for help. We just knuckle on through our own challenges so as not to bother anyone.

It’s our biggest fault, but one we knew CJ would force us to change on.

Sure enough, less than 10 weeks in, we need help with him. Having been offered tickets to the Olympics which are too good to miss, we need to find someone to help babysit him very late on a Sunday (actually, early on a Monday).

We must have spent 2-3 hours going through options before we actually picked up the phone to my brother to ask for help… They took about 2-3 seconds to think before giving a ‘yes’.

We really are going to have to get better at this asking for help if we are going to survive so far from “grandparents”!