A New Season

Well, it has been awhile since I have posted. There has been so much going on. This may not have any pics attached , but oh well, it's a post!!

Warning, this may be a long one!!!!

Our lives have seasons, I am not sure which season I am in, but I know I am in a new season.
I have quit my two part-time jobs(as preschool teacher and CNA) to work full-time 8-4, M-F.
I am working as the administrative assistant for a new Legacy facility that was just built and opened 5 minutes from my house!

I started on Sept. 21st. In a temporary office. The business was supposed to open the 1st of October, but three days before that there was a major flood in the basement(faulty sprinkler system it seems) that damaged all of the electrical control boxes. Therefore, it delayed the opening to October 26th.
We were told it would be a perfect time to take a vacation, but we could still come to work if we wanted to. I took a few days off and went to Cedar/St.Geo. None of my family could really take time off at this point, so I didn't really want to vacation alone!!! So the days that I did go into work, were somewhat boring. BAsically all I did was answer phones(that rarely rang), and write up an office supply order for when we opened up.

One day, they sent some of us to volunteer to serve at a luncheon at another LEgacy facility that was hosting Richard Paul Evans as a guest speaker(he wrote the Christmas Box, etc.). The luncheon was for over 100 people. I ended up setting all the tables, filling all glasses with ice and water, serving for a 3 course meal(in shifts, not all courses at once), refilling glasses when people ran out, and clearing the tables afterward, oh, also setting up all the chairs!! I was there from 10:30 til just after 2, smelling all the wonderful food, walking my legs off back and forth from the kitchen to the banquet room and working up quite a sweat. I really didn't mind doing this in the beginning-it was something to do besides sit behind a desk and be bored!! What really upset me was that the people at the facility we were helping didn't ever once say "thank you", or offer to let us eat some of this yummy food we had been smelling and serving. We worked right thru what should have been our lunch! Not one "thank-you" or token of appreciation. It has certainly made me look at waitress/servers with more appreciation. If someone does a good job when I am out to eat, I will let them know, either by generous tip or verbal acknowledgement!

Well, anyway, we moved over to our facility on October 23rd or 24th and officially opened for business on the 26th! Well, things are still very slow. It takes awhile to fill a 40-bed facility(that is just my side of the bldg., 37 more beds on the alzheimer's side!) Anyway, so most days while I sit and wait for the phone to ring, I am trying to find things to do to keep busy and not go BORED CRAZY!! Can't wait til things pick up!! But I am not liking the full-time thing! Wow! I never seem to get any quiet time or time to get errands done. This is gonna take awhile to get used to!!

That is what I mean by seasons-I am in a new season of life, one I haven't seen for over 20 years!! I am trying to adjust. It not only is hard to work full-time again, but it has been hard to come to the realization that I am no longer needed at home by my kids as I used to be. They are all graduated from HS, either attending college, or to their little family, They have moved out (most of them) and on with establishing their new lives-as it should be, but it is so hard to go from a busy life dedicated to being Carpool-mom, Cheer-mom, Dance-Mom, Sports-mom,
Getting everyone up, and where they need to be and then waking up one day to realize that I am not needed for those things anymore. I feel empty and useless-What am I if not a busy mom???

So, I must start out on a new season in my life and adjust to many new things at once and find out just who I am now!!