So, for our entire marriage, I have worked in an office and Dana has been the one at home taking care of children and/or working from home. In the past few months, I have been working on a contract and telecommuting from home. I am helping design a Sharepoint web page and can do everything remotely. Every now and then I have meetings that i need to attend at the office or on the phone, but I am working from home 90% of the time.
Now, please, don't get me wrong. I have listened to Dana and for most of the time, I have taken a week off between Christmas and New Years which is the heart of Christmas break from school. Christmas Break is always fun and we do things with the kids that range anywhere from movies or bowling, to driving to see Christmas lights or Zoo Lights, to just wandering the malls. One year we surprised them and spent one day at a water park all day. I think I still have the echoes of Delaney's high pitched shrieks as she went down the watersides ranging in my ears. However, after staying home for the entire break this year and trying to work from home during the break, I can finally understand the relief, joy, whatever you want to call it of having the kids go back to school this week. Yeah!!!
We have gotten back in to the routine of daily life. We get up, make lunches for school, shower, feed the kids breakfast, sprint up the hill with Delaney to catch the 7:32am bus ride to school, and by 8:30 when Andrew is on his way, calm falls over the house. I have learned that the dog sleeps on Delaney's bed for about two hours each morning before coming out to the kitchen to be with me. I have also learned the number of telemarketer calls that occur each day. I get work done more quickly, and more of it done, too.
Anyway, I just wanted to share with all of you who already knew, us parents enjoy the first days after Christmas vacation almost as much as Christmas itself. And, I am going to have to find an office job when summer vacation starts.
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