back at work

 I feel like I was on a roll with my blog updates, but then again I did have a lot of free time while I was off work! I feel like this week was a whirlwind, but i'm thankful its over and the weekend is finally here. Even if I was up at 6:15 this morning with my hubby who has to work Saturdays. I HATE that he has to work Saturdays! I long for the Saturday morning we can sleep in, go have breakfast at the beach and actually spend a whole day together. Instead, now that i'm back at work we're back to have 1 day off together. I'm very thankful for our jobs but I miss my husband and long for us to have "normal" work schedules so we can spend time together. It certainly has not been my favorite thing in our first year of marriage.

Ok, i'm done complaining...back to the whirlwind week.

I guess like in any job when you've been gone for a while you have a lot to catch up on. Thankfully I have a wonderful staff member who was filling in for me and she did a fabulous job keeping up with things in my absence so I didn't have too much work to come back to. But nonetheless there were still emails and phone calls to return, meetings, and trying to adjust to my crazy schedule again. I'm very thankful for my job, but the hours and schedule are hard. I'm sure i've shared this in the past, but I run the Before/After School Care program aka OOSH Care (Out of School Hours). So naturally that means I have to be at work before school and after school...so thats 6:30am-8:30am and 3:15pm-6:15pm, plus all my office hours which I generally do on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so on those days i'm at work all day...yes, 6:30am to 6:15pm, if i'm lucky I can try to get away for lunch. Working a split shift isn't always terrible because it does give me flexibility to see friends during the day, do my shopping, cleaning etc but when you live 20-25 minutes away from work that just means you spend a lot of time in the car. The schedule is hard, most days I don't get to see my husband until I get home at night (yes, even though we may work at the same school that doesn't mean I see him all the time!). I guess this week i've just had a harder time adjusting back to my schedule/routine and on top of that I've gotten sick. One of the joys of working with kids, lots of germs! It started out with just a little cough, then I started feeling miserable so I made a trip to the doctor and I have a chest infection. Not what you want to hear your first week back to work. So i'm on antibiotics for the first time in almost 2 years and have instructions to rest over the weekend so I can be good to go on Monday. So it certainly has been an eventful first week back at work.

Besides adjusting to working again and getting sick we've had a lot of other big things going on this week. Even though our Australian visa battle is over, we still have some other big things going on. Not going to go into all that now, but please keep us in your prayers.