So far, so good
It's the hub's second Tuesday at camp which means we officially made it though our first six-day work week. Brad has around 8 six-day work weeks at the beginning and then again at the end of the summer. I'm somewhat used to not having normal "weekends" because our schedules were so random doing Young Life in PA but I was with Brad for most of those random meetings, events, etc. Having spent so much time just with Abilene this week, I did wonder how I would feel when the hubs left for work on Saturday.
I wondered if my brain would be confused, expecting him to be home simply because that day of the week started with an "S." Isn't it funny how we come to expect things like that? Like, when you learn the months of the year in elementary school and December always had snow in it's pictures. But snow in December just isn't true when you grow up in GA so I always felt like I was somehow missing out on everyone else's White Christmas simply because I learned December should look like snow....
Wow, that sentence makes me sound like I need to go to a counselor but I swear I wasn't scarred by my snow-less childhood Christmases... at least I don't think I was. I will have plenty of White Christmases from here on out that's for sure.
The six-day work week wasn't so bad. I am really liking the predictability of the hub's work schedule. It's good for both of us, our brains are wired to work that way. We're both the oldest of our siblings making us both, as expected, type-A. Schedules and check-lists are our friends. So far, even with a job that is more physically demanding than what we were doing in PA, Brad has come home smiling and energized and that makes for one very happy wife.
Other happenings last week:
- We looked at a few more houses and it's slim pickin's up here, that's for sure. Patience is a virtue.
- It snowed... twice... in April. It's gonna take me a while to get used to that one.
- And wouldn't ya know it if Abilene sleep for nine, glorious, straight hours on Saturday night. I. couldn't. believe. it. It's the longest stretch of sleep she's had since she was born... over a year ago.
That was quickly replaced by an up-every-3-1/2-hour night on Sunday but, hey, you can't win 'em all.
We're already in Week #2 of his six-day work weeks and this one includes a staff time for Field Staff (what he's also doing part time along with his landscaping position) in the Greater Northeast Region at camp. The hubs won't get to go to all of it because he still has to complete his landscaping job on camp but we will try to be at anything happening in the evening. I'm so excited to be around such fantastic people and I'm sure it will be encouraging as we start relationships in the community to build Young Life in Saranac Lake High School.
So far, we have a roof over our heads, food in the kitchen, predictable time as a family in the evening, friends in the community, and a husband who seems satisfied in his vocation. I really couldn't ask for anything more.
I wondered if my brain would be confused, expecting him to be home simply because that day of the week started with an "S." Isn't it funny how we come to expect things like that? Like, when you learn the months of the year in elementary school and December always had snow in it's pictures. But snow in December just isn't true when you grow up in GA so I always felt like I was somehow missing out on everyone else's White Christmas simply because I learned December should look like snow....
Wow, that sentence makes me sound like I need to go to a counselor but I swear I wasn't scarred by my snow-less childhood Christmases... at least I don't think I was. I will have plenty of White Christmases from here on out that's for sure.
The six-day work week wasn't so bad. I am really liking the predictability of the hub's work schedule. It's good for both of us, our brains are wired to work that way. We're both the oldest of our siblings making us both, as expected, type-A. Schedules and check-lists are our friends. So far, even with a job that is more physically demanding than what we were doing in PA, Brad has come home smiling and energized and that makes for one very happy wife.
Other happenings last week:
- We looked at a few more houses and it's slim pickin's up here, that's for sure. Patience is a virtue.
- It snowed... twice... in April. It's gonna take me a while to get used to that one.
- And wouldn't ya know it if Abilene sleep for nine, glorious, straight hours on Saturday night. I. couldn't. believe. it. It's the longest stretch of sleep she's had since she was born... over a year ago.
That was quickly replaced by an up-every-3-1/2-hour night on Sunday but, hey, you can't win 'em all.
We're already in Week #2 of his six-day work weeks and this one includes a staff time for Field Staff (what he's also doing part time along with his landscaping position) in the Greater Northeast Region at camp. The hubs won't get to go to all of it because he still has to complete his landscaping job on camp but we will try to be at anything happening in the evening. I'm so excited to be around such fantastic people and I'm sure it will be encouraging as we start relationships in the community to build Young Life in Saranac Lake High School.
So far, we have a roof over our heads, food in the kitchen, predictable time as a family in the evening, friends in the community, and a husband who seems satisfied in his vocation. I really couldn't ask for anything more.
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