Moving On

This post is a little bit more about the Mom than the girls. After 12 years with the same office (minus one post-9/11 year helping out on something a little bit different) I have taken an instructor position and am off to try something different. Mom is highly resistant to change, so this is a pretty big step. The new job is in an out building much closer to home though, and I can keep my part time status, allowing me to pick up the girls right after school. Now that they are in the same location, this will a much easier process. I have been asked to make this type of move before and was interested, but passed on the opportunity. The timing just seemed right when I asked this time, however, and I love the idea of working with new officers and helping get them to where they need to be in order to succeed. The job does also involve daily, anonymous feedback from the students, however, so it looks like I will have to very quickly grow a thicker skin and process criticism in a constructive way regardless of how it is given.

The hours will also be much more predictable and more flexible, which will be enormously helpful since Mom has signed up to be a room rep for BOTH of the girls' rooms this school year: Hannah's I volunteered for because I was a room rep for Molly in PreK, and Molly's I volunteered for because nobody else did, and I did not want her room to suffer. We are also in the midst of cheerleading which involves two practices a week and games on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Hannah has swimming on Mondays and Molly has LCDS swim team on Fridays, and SNOW swimming Fridays after LCDS and Sundays, PLUS MOlly will start having swim meets on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays as well. Molly also has math club on Thursdays before cheering practice. We are, to put it mildly, a little bit overbooked.

So, lot of changes and lots of things to keep us too occupied to think too much about it. I am only hoping that I am able to transition to my job as well as the Bean has transitioned to her new school and Molly to her new grade. I am not sure it it is due to the excitement of the new campus or the wonderful teachers (both, probably) but neither the Moo nor the Bean has missed a beat this school year. The Bean has not once expressed a desire to go back to familiar surroundings at Beantree, and the Moo has shown none of the signs of stress that accompanied the start of the last two school years. We are so proud of them!!