The Changing of the Guard
Posted by: LizzieI’ve been trying to think of a way to write about this and every time I think I’m ready to write, I have to go clean up a mess or change a diaper or stick a thermometer in a baby’s butt! I guess you can say I’ve been busy.
Jamie finally, FINALLY got a new job. Last Monday, he got called for an interview for a teacher’s assistant job at a private school, went in for the interview Tuesday, then got accepted Wednesday. It all happened so fast! He started yesterday, but in order to help out the family that he worked for before, he is staying on in the evenings for the next two weeks. This means I’ll have to be doing all the homework/after school/dinner stuff by myself, but that’s really no different than it has been for the past six years. Once these two weeks are over, he’ll be getting home in the afternoons and we’ll be able to co-parent in the evenings. It’ll feel like a vacation!
The major change in our routine, though, will be mornings. Because Jamie’s job schedule was so sporadic for the last couple years, he has been the one getting up with the boys to see them onto the bus in the mornings. Now he has to leave before 7:00 A.M. and I have to get them on the bus. It’s so crazy! I am so not a morning person, and have enjoyed my few years of sleeping in. Every day is going to be different because Timothy isn’t always going to be sleeping while I try to pour cereal or find missing socks. But I think I can handle this change as long as I can take a shower and drink at least half a cup of coffee before the craziness begins.
This morning was our second day of the new routine. Timothy and Simon were both asleep when I walked the boys down to the end of the driveway to wait for the bus, so I got to spend some time with Corey and Aiden. Corey spotted a squirrel going across a wire and when I started singing a circus tune, he got the giggles. We watched the squirrel for a good five minutes until it made it into a tree and disappeared.
The birds were loud and Aiden said it would be cool if all the birds could make a band. I told him to close his eyes and listen for a minute and it might just sound like a band.
After they listened for a few seconds, Corey said he wishes he could record it so he could listen to it every day.
I wish I could record those conversations so I can play them back in a few years when the boys are too cool to talk to me. I know that day is coming. And I want to put it off for a little while longer. I want to bottle up these moments. Or! (not to sound super nerdy) I wish I could extract them from my memory like in Harry Potter so I can look at them later.
Yeah. That would be pretty awesome.
Tags: family life, jamie, routines
September 29th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Cool that he got a job!
September 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
First of all, congrats on the job, Jamie! I’d have said something to him Sun. Woohoo!
I dread school starting one day in the future because, like you, I am certainly no morning person. Good luck!
I think I need to get a notebook so I can at least write things like this conversation down, but a recording would be better. We’ll support each other through the teenage years.