Patience!

Patience, patience... I need so much of it, and yet lacking it has always been one of my character flaws...
Patience to see me through Jethro's prolonged screaming, crying bouts. Patience to get over Ethan's overly whiny behaviour and inability to adapt to school life here. Patience to wait for a place to settle in that will hopefully be homely and comfortable enough to settle me, to the settle the kids, to calm the turmoil. Patience to get through this stage, to take with equanimity whatever the future brings.
I need some resolve too, about whether to go back to work and putting the kids in childcare. I am so not used to the idea now.