My dear husband had to start working nights about 2 weeks ago. His section switches from day shift to night shift every 3 months, so it was time to switch again. He now works from 6pm-6am until sometime in April. What does this mean for me? Loooong nights alone. And for that matter, most of the day alone with the kids too. As soon as he gets home, he goes to sleep. He then sleeps until around 2:30pm and has to leave for work by 4pm. So I have to spend the entire day alone with the girls trying to come up with things to do and keep them busy while also keeping them quiet so daddy can sleep. Not an easy task since my 2 year old almost always insists on being ridiculously loud. Then the evenings are filled with serving the girls dinner, baths, cuddling and reading with them (my favorite part), and then bedtime at 8. After that, I'm left to my own devices. I usually try to straighten up the apartment and do some cleaning or some laundry. But I work fast and that is all usually done in 30 minutes to an hour. So here I sit, on this particular night, writing in my blog and watching The Ugly Truth. On his days off he is still on this backwards sleep schedule and sleeps half the day. Not blaming him... it's just his job. But I'm ready for these few months to be over so he can be back on the day shift. We love spending time together and the night shift really screws that up. I do love all the time I get to spend with the girls since I'm a stay at home mom for now, but I wish that he could spend more time with us too. OH well.... what can I do?
On another note, pay day is tomorrow and we should also be getting our tax return back sometime in the next couple of days. Woohoo!! 2010 has been dubbed our "Recovery Year" as far as our finances go. In the past couple of years we have been tight on money with me finishing school and such. Plus we didn't always make the smartest money choices. But we have learned a lot of lessons and we have really good goals set for this year. We're using our tax return to pay off our small debts (the remainder of a small loan, and our 2 small credit cards). After that, the only debt we will have to our name will be our truck that is back home safe in Texas. Then the plan is to start saving a large portion of our paycheck each month and paying a lot more on the truck than the normal amount. I won't bore anyone with more finance talk, but I'm just excited about us finally doing better with our money.
Alright, time to use some of this time to clean the shower. Exciting huh? Goodnight :)
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