and i took hannah to go hear pat schroeder speak.ure, we heard pat schroeder, who was in congress at the time, one of the few women at the time, this was in '92, she said not enough good people running for office and somebody came up to me and said, you ought to think running for the state legislature. and it was the furthest thing from my mind. i was trying to put together my own working situation, our own family situation. i couldn't visualize it. and i turned to hannah and she said, you should go for it. it was an interesting kind of validation, as a mom, you worry about, i won't give enough to my kids. i had three kids, she was the oldest. so for her to say it to me, it helped me to have the opportunity to think about it to say, maybe i could do this. in the end, i, just as you said, i've been forced to spend a lot of time away from home. sometimes i found i missed my kids more than they missed me because they were busy with their own lives. >> hannah? >> i was 14 years old, she wasn't changing diapers and my brother was a little