Stuck in a Character-Story Mire

When the story grows larger than you expected, more complex and with more characters, what do you do?

Option 1: Abandon the story, come back later, the little story elves will continue their sweat labor and fix it for you. (They’re not union, it’s ok.)
Option 2: Ignore the problem, it is clearly brilliant and I am looking at it on an “off” day.
Option 3: Cry, bitch and moan and then push on anyway, take longer than I had wanted, but make it right.

New insight tells me the little story elves don’t exist, so I guess Option 3 it is.

Mr. Hill's Wild Ride

Dear fair reader, this blogspace was all but abandoned over the last year as my family and I set out upon a grand adventure. Into the rabbit hole we went and as busy as we were, Wonderland it was not.

('Course, when Wonderland has crazy head-chopping monarchs, who wants to go there?)

It was an insane, double cross-country move. We left our lifelong home of California for Longhorn country, then, running with a tornado at our back we have found ourselves in the majestic Northwest. Time to harness my inner Vulcan, we're in Volcano country.

Why would any sane family with young children do such a thing? Well, desperate times, my friend... Like many others, the economic collapse leveled us with layoffs and financial problems. We had to rethink everything from career to where we lived. It took us a while, but I see the horizon aflame with the light of day.