Going Part Time

So there was a lot of reasons I decided to go full time at work after Felicity was born. Mostly we don’t know where we are going to move after Steven gets out of the Army (388 days to go!) and we wanted a little extra in the savings account. As well as a few other reasons.

However I talked to my boss and said it just wasn’t working out and I’d like to go back to part time. Even though full time is only 3 days a week and part time is only 2 days a week, that 1 extra day is worth it. I don’t think I anticipated the lack of sleeping and colickyness of Felicity and consequently the lack of sleeping from me, I never feel quite awake and I never feel quite asleep. And Felicity hates the bottle, so every time I’m at work she doesn’t eat well. Which doesn’t sound so bad until I went in to weigh her and she wasn’t gaining like she should. Plus Steven and I aren’t too cool with daycare (but we do have a very awesome sitter when we both work), so when I was working, Steven was at home and when Steven was working, I was at home. We hardly ever see each other. I mean it took us 2 months to have a night off for a date (where we left early). And then Felicity getting sick was the top of the cake and I was like dude ok, this is not working. Plus I mean I’m not really Super Mom or Super Woman and I’d like a little “Me Time” which I’m not getting, at all. (And the house, well I won’t discuss the house).

So I’m going back to part time. Not until mid-April because the schedules are out and we’re very short staffed (they’re getting rid of our LPNs and no one’s coming to replace them, which is making more than 1 person angry). Yeah, BTW are there any RNs around here that want a job and are good with kids, It’s a pretty good job, has it’s ups and downs, but I like it for the most part.