Where We Are Now

With all the changes, I thought it would be helpful for me mentally and maybe to the readers if you get to see where we are in life right now.

Chad's in Field Training at Coweta Sheriff's Dept. This means he rides with an "FTO" (Field Training Officer) for up to 8 weeks. He's on a two week rotation of his days on/off and ever 8 weeks he will switch from 12 hour day shifts to 12 hour night shifts. He works Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The next week it will be just Wednesday, Thursday.

He's loving the different pace, the stimulation of having to learn new things like 10 codes, roads/streets, etc. He's also enjoying the change of pace where it is much lower key so far.

I'm now working 3 1/2 days a week; one full day in the office, two half days, and the rest from home.

Steven is at "Ms. Kathy's" one to two mornings a week until MMO starts and at Nana's one day a week. Although there are weeks when he won't need to be in "childcare" for more than a half day. We'll see how this all work sout. He's loving Ms. Kathy's. They were on vacation for two weeks and prior to the vacation he was still crying when we dropped him off. The last day that he was there Steven cried when we left instead of when he got there. The first day after they got back from vacation he just went to playing and really didn't care very much about the fact I was leaving. he just blew me a kiss and I was off. The second day I came to get him, he wasn't even really concerned that I was there. He did go and get a toy to show me, but was not happy when it was time to go home. (He always loves going to Nana's, so there's no point in expounding here). Overally, I just love having a great, safe, fun place to leave him when we do have to leave him.

This is where we are now. We are trying to adjust and for the foreseen future we don't know of any changes in our work schedules. We are planning to have the bathrooms redone and put the house on the market come spring or so. We hope to move to Coweta, where there are lots of advantages with Chad's job and several friends in the area with kids Steven's age and we like. I'm sure we're not done changing things in our lifestyle and work, because we're always changing. We're happy where we are for the most part and are working on making ourselves happy in the areas we aren't.