I'm still trying to grasp it all! Trying to keep up with 3 toddlers, a household, & sort out all the ins-and-outs of all this newness & change. I'm feeling
First Off --> Jeff has a JOB!
Through the past year we knew it was a possibility he could find job this fall while he finished school. Because he already has a bachelor's degree, he would qualify for a provisional teaching certificate. But we pretty much wrote it off as a pipe-dream. And prepared ourselves for 1 more year of being this poor. We discussed him getting a part-time job this fall as he doesn't have too many classes, but realized we would turn around & spend most of if not all of that income on daycare. So it just made more sense for him to be a stay-at-home-while-in-school-daddy for the fall semester & make my scheduling a little easier. (Plus to be honest I kind of liked him at home!)
Then, last Thursday he went to meet with his advisor to sort through stuff & make sure he had all his classes squared away. So he was ready for student teaching in January & graduation in May. And....ended up in a job interview. Wearing shorts & a beer t-shirt! Yeah, it was that impromptu. Its a part-time teaching job, at a high school in Lincoln. The classes he will be teaching are being re-arranged to suit him, so he can still attend his afternoon classes he needs for graduation. Which is great! Except I had planned my fall schedule as him being "daddy daycare." We planned on needing daycare set up for January. And now we need daycare, well starting tomorrow, Friday!! Tuesday we found out, he officially starts, today, Thursday. So all of this is happening so fast. From impromptu interview to starting a job in 1 week. So my fall agenda of doing our research & finding daycare for January, was put on hyper speed!
Secondly --> I have a NEW job!
I accepted a full-time position with Lakeside. It happend a whole lot faster than I planned, hence the lack of advanced notice as you all know I blog EVERYTHING. But I'm officially there! Its a very different setting than my old job. I am working in a smaller, lower acuity NICU. Its about 1/2 the driving distance from my home. I get to wear hospital laundered scrubs meaning less lanudry for me to do at home. And the craziest part... I am cross training to post partum. Thats the scary part! {And I'm still not sure how I feel about it.} Learning how to care for HEALTHY people. Furthermore, caring for ADULTS! Yikes! I'm really enjoying my new co-workers. {And missing my old ones} And while I feel very out of my comfort zone, I know I'll get in the groove soon. Learning new things keeps us young, right? The biggest (and bestest) change about this new job..... I'm working DAY SHIFT! This is a huge change for me. 5:30am looks a whole lot different from the flip-side. And while 12 hour days are long & busy. And I hardly get home in time to tuck the kiddos into bed. I'm feeling good. Enjoying going to bed at the same time as my husband (or trying to). Enjoying kissing my kids before bed every single night. Enjoying seeing their excitement when I come home. Enjoying averaging more than 4-5 hours of sleep a day. And after just a few weeks, enjoying already starting to "heal" from the "night shift fog." I've heard people say moving from the night shift is like recovering from a disease you never knew you had, and that it takes longer than you would imagine, several months. So I'm excited to see how I change & grow after I've made a complete "recovery" & figured out a new routine.
We are so lucky we were able to, on a whim, find ourself a daycare set up that we are happy with. We have been doing some research on & off for almost a whole year. But we finally made a visit in to make sure we were happy with our find. We'll most likely start there Sept 1. They will do daycare 1-2 days a week & still have GG daycare the other 1-2 days. (Auntie Molly will be saving our ass in the mean time, helping out for the next few weeks! She'll be practicing up for October when our new cousin is born.) The daycare has very flexible scheduling for me. It's affordable. Conveinent. I'm happy with our find. But I think its going to be a rough transition for the kids. Very rough! Getting up at 6am 2-3 days a week. That is SO not their style. Dealing with their still very severe seperation anxiety is going to be hard. I forsee a lot of tears. (probably from 3 kids & 1 mommy, who will have to drop them off while hero daddy will almost always get to pick them up) But I know it will be good for them to get some more socialization outside of our little clique. I always wanted to get them into a daycare setting around age 2 for that very reason. Get in some fun activities, crafting & learning opportunities that I don't have the smarts, energy, resources or time to do with them at home. Learn how to make friends outside of their siblings. And maybe learn a few things from some older kids. The daycare's routine in terms of meals & naps is pretty similar to ours. (except the getting up early thing) So hopefully that transition won't be too hard. Wish us luck!
Keep us in your thoughts as we journey through these major transitions. And pray for the kids, that they transition into this new journey well too.
Change is growth. And this is apparently our spurt!
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