Wow, I must have been one tired puppy last night. My clock said 9:02pm when I laid down. This morning my sleep app indicated I was asleep at 9:02pm. I truly don't remember a thing after my head hit the pillow. I slept almost 8 hrs straight through. Unfortunately, I woke up with a slight headache. Not a surprise.
Last night we had a fun phone call with Sarah. She is so excited about her new job! The people are all so nice. Her bosses took her and the other newbie out to lunch yesterday. They gave them each a gift bag full of goodies, including a devotional book. All the workers gather first thing before they start work each day for devotions and prayer together. The devotional book she was given is the same one they are doing as a group at work.
She said the company owner also owns the Athletic Club next door. So all the employees are given free memberships. It includes indoor exercise equipment, an outdoor obstacle course, a nature walk through a wooded area. The boss encourages all the employees every Wednesday to go out as a group and do the obstacle course.
She gets off work at 5:30 and it's just getting dusk at that time, so she gets to drive home pretty much with some daylight left. It isn't completely dark until 6pm there. She has to be at work at 8:30am and gets a full hour lunch.
I asked her if she was remembering to lock her front door when she is at home and she said yes, however, she said her coworkers and boss were laughing yesterday about the fact that they can't remember when they last locked their front doors while they were at home and they never lock their car doors! Oh my!
Well, now the reality of getting back to cooking and cleaning again. Sigh. Now I have the added responsibilities of folding all the laundry and putting it away, vacuuming the kitchen/dinning/stairs/basement, dusting the dinning area, cleaning the downstairs bathroom, and putting away the clean dishes and setting the table for all meals.
It's weird to see Sarah's bedroom door shut and to know she is not in there. Since she had quit her nursing home job to do the Praxis schooling, she would be in her room with the door shut after I got up in the morning, then later she would come out, do a few things and then if she didn't have errands or someone to meet in the morning she would work in her room most of the morning on her school work. If I needed to tell her something or ask a question I'd go up and knock on her door and she would be at her desk usually. I'm going to miss that. And her room will be so empty now that she took so much of the stuff with her. I'm not sure whether to leave her door shut or to open it. There is a pile of stuff in the basement that belongs to her. Stuff she didn't have room for in the car or that she just decided not to take. I told her I would moving all that stuff up to her room until such a time as she either decides to stay permanently in NC or she comes back home to live until she finds a job after her apprenticeship. I will try to keep it neat, so her room doesn't look trashed. I wouldn't want her to come for a visit later and have to come home to messy room.
Well, enough sitting here drinking green tea and dumping my thoughts out in this blog post. I have to figure out what needs to be done around here and what my plan of attack will be. Granted, I plan to keep this a low key day since I am so tired from losing a night's sleep and jet lag to boot. I'm going to be gentle with myself as I am tired and emotional as I am trying to process all that has gone on in the last 14 days and getting back to "normal" life, whatever normal is. I suppose I should start by cleaning up the mess where my travel bag "barfed" all over the love seat! Nathaniel was surprised at the mess when he came home yesterday evening. And this photo doesn't even include the arm load of dirty clothes I hauled to the washer last night.
Oh, boy am I glad to get to wash my clothes! I didn't get to wash like I had planned on the 9th day of my trip. What's more, I only brought one set of winter clothes and one set of warmer weather clothes. I expected NC to warmer as well as all the Southern states. Nope, they were not. So I ended up wearing the same clothes for 14 days straight in order to keep warm. On the 14 day, Sunday I sniffed the shirt and said, "No way, this thing stinks too bad to wear to church or out in public anymore." So I ditched the warm shirt for Sunday and the trip home. All my underclothes and socks got rotated through a second time. Ewww! But you know what? I learned that when necessity dictates I can get along with very little.
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2 comments:
lt is a huge adjustment when the chicks leave the nest and it will take some time. Be sure to continue to be gentle with yourself and don't be surprised if you suddenly find yourself crying and not knowing why. lt is a process but it is as good ordained. You will be fine.
lt sounds like Sarah has an amazing life ahead of her with a terrific place to work with lovely people who will support her emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
l hope it is an easy happy transition for all of you
Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate it. My first day home, I was exhausted to the point of feeling physically ill. I walked into the basement and saw a pile of partially folded laundry that Sarah had started before we left. That was all it took to turn on the waterworks.
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