I have now been working for one week. Sometimes the learning curve can be quite harsh. This week I started out with good intentions, and ended the week just trying to survive. My days started with beep beep beep at 5:30am. I roll out of bed to my knees to say my prayers, then to the shower and personal prep time. By 6:15, I'm ready, bedroom is ready, bathroom is ready, so time for scriptures and then the kids. By about 6:30, I am doing breakfast, lunches, and encouraging the children quite loudly to get ready. We call DSH at 7 so we can do family scriptures and prayer, then I am out the door with S and R, leaving 1T and 2T to get off to school themselves. Incidentally, it only took 2T one day to realize that no one would know if they went to school or not.
As the week went on, I became more and more exhausted. There is something draining about trying to keep up with and keep the interest of 5 year olds. These children were also very kind so share their knowledge, as well as their germs with me. By Thursday, I was so tired, and could feel a cold coming on.
On Friday, after a cold medicine induced sleep, I decided that hairspray, contacts and makeup were over rated, and I could benefit myself far more with another half hour of sleep. I seriously considered hot lunch for the kids, and didn't care if someone wanted to look at the house. I'd never see them anyway, right? At least I made it to the school on time, never mind the fact that I was probably spreading germs. They were only the same ones that had been shared with me. I guess I should have cared a little more because I had 2 students ask me the same question that day.
" Are you the same lady that was here the other day?"
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
High-ho, High-ho
Well, it has been 4 years since all of my children were in school full time. I have to say I have gotten quite used to my 6 hours of personal time each week day :) But now that is all over for the time being. DSH is gone and now I am a single parent. So what better thing to do than to start a job the first weekday that he is gone? Granted, it is just a job being a kindergarten aid at the neighboring school, and it is a temporary job at that. BUT. . . .
I HAVE TO BE THERE WITH 2 CHILDREN BY 7:30 AM!!!
After my first day, all I can say is that I am exhausted. The Job isn't difficult, it is just that I have been running since 5;30 this morning, and I don't like it.
I know, poor me.
It is actually a blessing in disguise though. FH said that when her husband was deployed to Iraq, having a job is what kept her sane. She said that she had to get going every morning, and spent the day with her mind concentrating on something other than the fact that her husband was gone. R has also been having a difficult time with the uncertainty of our lives. He has had to go see the school social worker and the principal because he has been so upset at school. Now that I am there, he just comes to see me. So that is a good thing.
Heavenly Father is blessing us
I HAVE TO BE THERE WITH 2 CHILDREN BY 7:30 AM!!!
After my first day, all I can say is that I am exhausted. The Job isn't difficult, it is just that I have been running since 5;30 this morning, and I don't like it.
I know, poor me.
It is actually a blessing in disguise though. FH said that when her husband was deployed to Iraq, having a job is what kept her sane. She said that she had to get going every morning, and spent the day with her mind concentrating on something other than the fact that her husband was gone. R has also been having a difficult time with the uncertainty of our lives. He has had to go see the school social worker and the principal because he has been so upset at school. Now that I am there, he just comes to see me. So that is a good thing.
Heavenly Father is blessing us
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