Work and play and sleep and work and play and sleep.

Today was my fourth day on the job and I must say, this job seems as if it was made for me.  Or at least, made for future me...the me who doesn't have blistered toes or sore legs.  I suppose my point of view might drastically change in the next few weeks but so far, so wonderfully good.  

I did an entire route all by myself today.  There were small frustrations along the way; backtracking and dogs that want to eat me.  But in the early afternoon, after my belly was filled with lunch and I was at the beginning of my second wind, I thought that this just might be the best job in the whole world.  Walking around, alone with my thoughts, sun shining on my face and random residents coming outside just to chat with me.  Nobody is breathing down my neck. There are no weekly meetings or daily emails about procedural changes.  I simply deliver the mail and if I can do that in a timely manner without complaining, I'm good.  And I'm exactly that right now: GOOD.  I'm doing a service that people mostly love.  If you could see the residents at the retirement home gather around me when I show up, hope and happiness in their eyes, you might just reconsider your own job.  

Kenny cleaned the whole house today and had supper ready when I returned home.  He is currently taking a nap.  So are both of the kids.  I guess the last day of school was just too much for all of them to handle, but I am not complaining as Mae's softball game will run pretty late and I do not like sitting with grumpy kids (Kenny included).  I simply can't believe that I am now the mother of a fifth grader and a fourth grader. The time, it is a-flyin'.  


And besides that, I don't have anything new to report.  Aside from work, I have been sleeping ten or more hours each night.  This is the best sleep I've ever had.  Walking all day long makes a body tired.  And as for the hours in between work and sleep...the kids pretty much have it covered with their baseball/softball games/practices.  All in all, life is great right now and it just better stay that way.