Wimpy

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My boss says she still wants to keep me on...I still want to take December off though.  They don't have any work to offer me really, not until the summer anyway; we'll see.  I'm keeping my options open, but I am still uncomfortable with the direct contact with patients, so I doubt if I will renew my contract regardless.  I'm a wimp, what can I say!

Hubby is coming home today after a four-day bender with the boys in Dublin...I'm sure it'll be a mixed blessing haha - I can't wait to dump the kids on him, but then I'm sure he'll be too tired-out to do anything useful with them ;-)  At least I'll be spared the harrowing experience of trying to get them to sleep.  Our kids don't like it any more than their parents do I'm afraid.

And of course while hubby was away and we were understaffed already at work, A got sick - a bad throat infection, and the fact that it hurt too much to eat or drink finally prompted me to take him to the doc's, resulting in ten days of antibiotics three times a day - which is a HUGE fight to get him to take every time.  Bribery with candy is my solution.  It's the only thing that works so far.

Otherwise the weekend alone with the kids went a lot better than I thought it would, sickness and sleep deprivation and all!  Not saying I want to do it again anytime soon, mind you ;-)

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Semi-certain future

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Blogging is a slow process these days!

I was saved any drama at work by having the woman I'm filling in for announce her return, not on Nov 1st but on Dec 1st.  I'm really glad about that, although my boss was sad to lose me!  Which is a good thing, of course, but though I am glad of the experience of working there, I am also looking forward to the next chapter, whatever that may be.

Looking forward to having December off, hopefully will be able to organize a wonderful Christmas for my family - my mother was always so good at making Christmas a magical time for us, I hope to be able to do that for my kids as well!

My mood is lifting in time with the de-cluttering around here.  We have managed to get rid of quite a lot of stuff, and more is on its way.  We have a whole carload just waiting to go to the cottage, so once THAT's out of the way we'll be pretty much set I think!  Can't wait to be able to use the third bedroom for something besides storage...!

The nights are getting longer here now, seems only yesterday that it didn't get properly dark at all - now it's nighttime already at quarter past seven!  I realize at these junctions that I love the light summer nights - but that in summer I miss the dark evenings, too.  Seems I'm fully acclimated to Bergen finally!

Gotta go, my mom is stopping by to mind the kids while Thomas and I have a couple hours of "us"-time.  We need it ;-)

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