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35 LIFE's TR ANSITIONS Chapter Five D ecember 26, 2004. Freezing in Memphis that day. Roads iced over everywhere, the interstate a slate of snow and ice mixed together. We actually had to shovel the drive way and walkways just to move things from the house to the moving van using a dolly. Bryant was going with us to Louisiana in the moving caravan to help us move and to spend the rest of Christmas break with us. We had just found a new lot we liked and we would start building in a week. We needed to move almost all of our belongings into storage and then stay with my sister until our house was built. I had planned the years to come in my mind carefully. I knew I could go to Memphis every other week and work. I was a nurse, and working through an agency helped me work out my plan. For five days, I would work in Memphis, spending as much time as I could between 12-hour shifts with Kristina and Bryant. They were both in school all day, so I could drive to the baseball field and sit in my car and watch practice before driving to work the 12-hour night shift. On my off days, I would spend them wait- ing for Bryant and Kristina to be available for dinner. I would drive back to Louisiana PRN (the as needed shift) at the local hospital, spend as much time with my husband and my youngest son as pos- sible, then turn back around and drive back to Memphis. Then, I