Everyone looks for that perfect job. You know, the one that allows you to keep putting that scoop or two of food in the dog bowl and have enough time to complete the dishes once you get home. That one job that fits your family needs. That one job where the work environment is just tolerable enough that keeping your mouth shut and laying low works well. Looking for that one job where experience overcomes new bosses and opinions are weighed heavily no matter the extent of your degree. And we all keep looking\u2026 and hoping\u2026 until we find something that\u2019ll \u201cwork for now until something else comes up.\u201d<\/p>\n
This week has been a bit hard on me. I started the week missing Matt. Our puppy got sick and that mom-instinct in me kicked in. I didn<\/span>\u2019t want to be at work and think of that sick puppy at home just waiting for her vet trip. You should have seen that big dog with her tail between her legs shaking in her cage when I got up Tuesday morning. Poor thing. And those two events combined have kind of hit me harder than I thought they would. See, I\u2019ve<\/span> missed Matt before. There have been days that I just flat out don\u2019t want to go to work because I want to see my husband. I think, \u201cEveryone else got to see him, but he\u2019s mine and I want to get my share.\u201d Monday night date nights help.<\/p>\n Transition is occurring at work and it\u2019s leaving me a bit high and dry. I\u2019ve<\/span> been putting in the work for 2 jobs and I don\u2019t see an end to this phenomenon. I\u2019m trying to remain hopeful. Baby\u2019s taken a growth spurt and begun to stick out more and more with each passing morning. Work people are noticing and commenting regularly. But the kids at work remain in the same intensity level, requiring running down the hallway, dragging screaming 5 and 6 year olds<\/span>, and absorbing some blows here and there.<\/p>\n Things have changed a bit since I was first told I was taking full responsibility of the older class. I have grown a bit (as mentioned before) and this week it has become much more evident to me that I am no longer risking just my neck. See, I can take a blow from a 6 year old. I\u2019ve<\/span> taken them before and I\u2019ll take them again before this life is over. But I can only do so much to defend this baby. Our baby. My baby.<\/p>\n I mentioned my concern in staff meeting yesterday regarding some highly aggressive kids and my continued growing state. Administration offered a temporary fix for which I was grateful that anything at all had been done. But the topic was concluded with the strong statement that this was merely a temporary fix until this transition was smoothed over. Only problem is that these kids aren<\/span>\u2019t leaving any time soon\u2026 and I\u2019m not going on leave until January. So it makes me a bit more concerned about this baby\u2019s safety, especially since this baby\u2019s mine. If I don\u2019t look out for it while I\u2019m carrying it (and thereafter) no one else will. Matt can only do so much to keep our baby safe when it\u2019s in my belly.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know\u2026 this week\u2019s just been a little hard in that my priorities are very much elsewhere. And the balance of work and my family\u2019s welfare seems to be a little tainted this week.<\/p>\n sigh<\/em> <\/span> Everyone looks for that perfect job. You know, the one that allows you to keep putting that scoop or two of food in the dog bowl and have enough time to complete the dishes once you get home. That one job that fits your family needs. That one job where the work environment is just… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-a-mom","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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