So, I'm late getting my post done...I'm thinking we're lucky it's being done at all given my life at the moment: CRAZY! You see, one week I was your normal, stay-at-home Mom just trying to wade through laundry and put food items in a pot, hoping it would turn out edible...the next week I was working full-time and digging out the "nice" clothes from the back of my closet. The cool thing is? IT'S AWESOME!
Colt and I agreed when we started our family that when the kids were home, one of us should be home. I stayed home and figured that when all kids finally enter full-day school, I would look for a job. With Rodas headed to Kindergarten next year, I've been pondering on how to find a job that would fit our crazy schedule of kids constantly on the go--summer and school year--while also doing something worthwhile, economically beneficial, and stimulating...in Craig, Colorado, no less. Hmmmm. Tough one.
As so happens with the odd synchronicity of life, the right thing comes along at what seems like the wrong time. Turns out, sometimes what seems like bad timing is just our limited vision. The principal at Hayden Valley Elementary, where our kids go to school, mentioned to me that they were in the process of hiring a new librarian--a position I had actually mentioned months before casually to Colt while doing my "what to do with my life but still take care of kids" ponderings. I have always loved reading and books and have thought being a librarian would be something I would really enjoy doing. I have a masters in Natural Resource Sociology, but my brain is so far removed from that life I feel like that knowledge just dissipated. Jobs in that are limited here, too. Go figure. (0: Anyways...
Plop, into my lap the opportunity falls.
Eek. Wrong timing.
What do we do with Rodas, whom we have not wanted to go the daycare route because of attachment reasons.
How do I get everything done--laundry, cleaning, dogs, girls looooooong baths, exercise, helping Mom sell her awesome crafts--on top of a full time job? I couldn't keep up with it as it was, how would I do it minus 40 hours each week?
Seemed doomed. But perfect. What better job...for next year, that is...I'd be home when the kids were home: summers, weekends and breaks, and working while they were at school. If I applied and was hired, it would just be really rough until the end of this year. Daycare for only a few months...surely that might not be too bad?
To make a short story long, we decided to go for it. I lucked out and got the job, being interviewed then hired on a Thursday (doing all I could to stay afloat a midst a wonderful migraine) and started work the following Monday. WHIRLWIND!
The first few weeks were rough, getting into the new swing of things. Rodas seemed shell-shocked for most of it and was very tired at the end of each day, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. As we're in the rhythm of it now, I see that it was probably serendipity starting this job now. Rodas is acclimating to the full day of activity that she will have next year in Kindergarten, and her daycare provider is great. She has her hands full of kids and thus is not able to provide Rodas the full attention that she would want--forcing Rodas to socialize with the other children. We have been working hard getting Rodas to socialize in Primary and Preschool instead of monopolizing and following around the teacher, and were worried about it in Daycare.
So, now I'm still wading through laundry and trying to figure out what to make for dinner, but it's a whole lot more complex, but that's okay. I like what I do, where I'm going and the new clothes that I can now justify are pretty cool, too! (0:
Our February in pictures:
Colt and I agreed when we started our family that when the kids were home, one of us should be home. I stayed home and figured that when all kids finally enter full-day school, I would look for a job. With Rodas headed to Kindergarten next year, I've been pondering on how to find a job that would fit our crazy schedule of kids constantly on the go--summer and school year--while also doing something worthwhile, economically beneficial, and stimulating...in Craig, Colorado, no less. Hmmmm. Tough one.
As so happens with the odd synchronicity of life, the right thing comes along at what seems like the wrong time. Turns out, sometimes what seems like bad timing is just our limited vision. The principal at Hayden Valley Elementary, where our kids go to school, mentioned to me that they were in the process of hiring a new librarian--a position I had actually mentioned months before casually to Colt while doing my "what to do with my life but still take care of kids" ponderings. I have always loved reading and books and have thought being a librarian would be something I would really enjoy doing. I have a masters in Natural Resource Sociology, but my brain is so far removed from that life I feel like that knowledge just dissipated. Jobs in that are limited here, too. Go figure. (0: Anyways...
Plop, into my lap the opportunity falls.
Eek. Wrong timing.
What do we do with Rodas, whom we have not wanted to go the daycare route because of attachment reasons.
How do I get everything done--laundry, cleaning, dogs, girls looooooong baths, exercise, helping Mom sell her awesome crafts--on top of a full time job? I couldn't keep up with it as it was, how would I do it minus 40 hours each week?
Seemed doomed. But perfect. What better job...for next year, that is...I'd be home when the kids were home: summers, weekends and breaks, and working while they were at school. If I applied and was hired, it would just be really rough until the end of this year. Daycare for only a few months...surely that might not be too bad?
To make a short story long, we decided to go for it. I lucked out and got the job, being interviewed then hired on a Thursday (doing all I could to stay afloat a midst a wonderful migraine) and started work the following Monday. WHIRLWIND!
The first few weeks were rough, getting into the new swing of things. Rodas seemed shell-shocked for most of it and was very tired at the end of each day, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. As we're in the rhythm of it now, I see that it was probably serendipity starting this job now. Rodas is acclimating to the full day of activity that she will have next year in Kindergarten, and her daycare provider is great. She has her hands full of kids and thus is not able to provide Rodas the full attention that she would want--forcing Rodas to socialize with the other children. We have been working hard getting Rodas to socialize in Primary and Preschool instead of monopolizing and following around the teacher, and were worried about it in Daycare.
So, now I'm still wading through laundry and trying to figure out what to make for dinner, but it's a whole lot more complex, but that's okay. I like what I do, where I'm going and the new clothes that I can now justify are pretty cool, too! (0:
Our February in pictures:
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| Nordic Dude Wyatt |
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| Old Man! But we still love him! |
