Adjusting to the New Life

So you're wondering how the new job, thus life, is going.

Considering that it's been nearly two months since my last post, I can tell you that it's been a monumental adjustment. Not just the job, but my oldest starting kindergarten and my youngest starting preschool. Between juggling work, two different schools and sorting out all that goes with each (including homework), marriage, and dance class twice a week, I tell ya, I just can't see straight. I feel like I'm constantly in a hurry, already worrying about the next thing I have to do but feeling I haven't done a one of them justice.

The good news is I love the job. It is by far the most challenging and creative work I have ever done. The atmosphere is relaxed and fun, the people are great, and I'm developing a whole new skills set that will serve me so well in the future.

A major bonus is my new company is only 5-10 minutes away from my previous employer, so I get to meet my best buds from there rather regularly for lunch. Man oh man, do I miss them. What makes me most sad is I feel like with some of them that our friendships were just blossoming and then I left, cutting them short. I'm committed to still giving them the opportunity to flourish.

I stopped in the old offices before and after our lunch together last week and we just had the best time, joking and horsing around. It was like I still worked there, but only better (because I don't, but I get to see them!). I'm looking forward to some evenings out together that we have planned in the coming weeks.

As for my girls, taking those two weeks off in between jobs was a bad, bad idea. For my kids, it was like they had forgotten I had ever worked, so when I went back it was torture. My youngest barricaded my bedroom door almost every morning for the first month. The guilt was nearly insurmountable. It's a struggle I endure every day and I suspect it will be like this until they are teenagers, when they will want nothing to do with me. Unless they want to borrow my shoes.