Rob is finishing up his Tuesday/Thursday NKU class, so that's limiting his travel. Meaning that he essentially is doing no traveling at all until that's over. And by the time NKU is finished, it'll be December, and December is a slow month at the company. So after a very, very slow week where Rob stared at the wall and wondered what in the heck he was supposed to be doing with his time, his boss called him and told him that he recognized that this was an akward situation and that Rob was probably feeling like right now there wasn't much for him to do. Then he said, "Enjoy the time with your family." I was like, "See, Rob? You can stop feeling guilty now." (Rob seems to like feeling guilty. I reject guilt as a fairly useless emotion. I don't know why he keeps it around. Icky thing.)
Essentially Rob is being paid to be a stay-at-home Dad. I'm not going to complain about that.
It is kinda funny, though, to watch Rob do some familiar things. I come home from school, etc., and he's like, "Hi. How was your day? What are you doing? Do you want to talk about it? What are you doing later? Wanna watch a movie? Wanna hang out?" Okay, not quite like that, but sort of. I told him he's a mere weeks away from screaming, "If you don't take me on a date this weekend where we actually leave this house, it's over between us!"
Tamra's School
This semester is done in a month! Praises.
I realized a few weeks ago that part of what was hurting so much in terms of my relationship with school is that my focus became school instead of everything else in my life. I enjoy school, and I work hard for sure, but it's a side note in my life. That's where I determined it to be, and that's where it shall stay. But it had taken a more primary role, and it was throwing everything else off.
I re-focused. I decided that weekend times were once again family time, and to hell with homework. I read more books with the kids. I played Legos. I cuddled with Tank. We've all benefited from this.
Also, Rob is now being paid to take care of things at home. This has helped a ton.
But his job situation has also created a large question mark over my future job situation. We'd been aiming at a full-time job for me, but that's not necessary any more, and not even neccessarily desirable if Rob's going to be home during the days sometimes and traveling other times. It would drive me CRAZY to work full-time if he was here, and if we didn't need the money as a driving force to keep me out there.
So we're re-evaluating all that. We've come to some good conclusions and our future looks pretty awesome. We are so excited about it all. We have a good little life.
The Kids' Halloween
You remember a while back that I told you that Miciah made Tank a Halloween costume? I'm finally posting pictures of it:
It's a robot, of course! And it was a hit. He got ridiculous amounts of candy from adults who were jealous that they didn't have the same exact costume when they were 6 years old. Miciah was like, "Wait, that's not fair. I made it and Tank gets the extra candy?" They shared the candy anyway, so it all worked out.
Miciah was Little Bo Peep. She was going for Pioneer Girl, or Pilgrim or something, but she walked upstairs and Rob said, "What are you? Little Bo Peep?" Love that Miciah girl, she said, "I can be! I have a sheep downstairs!" She's awesome.
Elijah walked around trying to be scary for weeks. He was just cute, not scary. But we'll take it.
And that's life around here. Loving what we've got.
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