I Got A Job

I got a job.  I GOT a job.  I got a JOB!  I.  Got.  A.  Job.

Yep… I’m workin’.

After being a SAHM for about 15 years (OMGosh, am I really old enough to say that?!).  Fifteen years as a SAHM?  Wait, let me count.  Yes.  Anyway, let’s move on.  Last year I was able, for the first time in my LIFE, to drop all three of my children off at school.  ALL. DAY.  The feeling was mind-blowing.  After being in the company of at least one child for 15 years and now suddenly, to be all alone !

 

You’d think I’d arrived in SAHM utopia.  I went to thrift shops, did grocery shopping, went to the library.  Read a book!  I actually had a couple scares walking thru a store and suddenly realizing I was alone, my heart would stop as I remembered the kids were in school, not stuck in the car!

BUT, when my husband and kids would get home, I had no excuses for the messy house and no dinner.  Hubby would ask what I had done all day and I no longer had the kid to blame it on!  I played all day.  I was irresponsible with my new-found freedom!  I was frolicking.

So, I cleaned (kinda).  I planned meals (sorta).  I sat down and realized I needed a better excuse if I was ever going to get out of this new way of life.

And really, the perfect job opened up.

I would be working with kids (of course).

36 of them to be exact.  I am now the kindergarten aide at my kids’ school.  In the mornings we all go to school together, and at the end of the day we all come home together.  The house is a mess and meals are sporadic, but that’s how I roll.

I am thankful for that time ‘off’, and even though it was great to get rid of my brood, I actually kinda missed them, and I wouldn’t want to work anywhere else!

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