It's the end of the school year and I have finally had a chance to look at my daughter's fourth grade writing journal. All year, the teacher has been asking thought-provoking questions and the children have written their answers in the journal.

One of the entries stopped me cold:

"If I could spend the day as another person I'd choose my mom because she gets to stay home and do nothing while laying down all day and she doesn't even have an ear infection."

The date on this entry is from last September, about a month after I had to stop working due to a severe depressive episode. I know we told our kids that I wasn't feeling well, but we try not to make a big deal about it so as not to worry them. Now, she was only nine when she wrote this, and I know kids are quite resilient....but now it makes me wonder what their perspective of things really is.

Guess I just needed to share that.