We are finally chicken pox free! The littlest is dried up and the scabs are starting to fall off. Ethan has no scabs left just the marks as to where they were. Unfortunately as he has picked a couple off that look like they have scarred. I hope that as he is only 3 and a half that with time they will fade. So a healthy (almost) household.
Since going back to work I have been extremely tired. There's been evenings where I've had to retire to bed by 8 o'clock. Before children I used to work 14 hour split shifts, finish at 5am and be back at work before lunch time the next day and still manage to have a social life. Now I'm in my pajamas by 5pm! I don't want to sound like I'm moaning because I love being a parent and I actually do enjoy my job but I think I might of been burning the candle at both ends. Thankfully I have Sunday so my plans are for a huge amount of family time. I've not seen my parents in 3 weeks and they only live a 10 minute drive away.
The return to work was a very easy one. I didn't feel anxious or sad that I was leaving the kids at home (with their dad) all day or worried how he'd cope. Instead I found it empowering that I was going to be someone other than Ethan and Helana's mummy. I even enjoyed being away from the kids for a few hours a day.
There is a new CEO at our company and he seems great. He cares for the staff in a way that is new to me and wants to keep the staff on instead of accepting a high turnaround. We are now paid 30p higher than the national minimum wage and he has promised to raise our wages a further 10% by the end of the year. Yes we are still below the living wage but we aren't struggling and an extra 30p an hour will make quite the difference.
I'm not planning at staying at my job forever and to reflect this I started a online forensics course with the university of Strathclyde through future learn. So far I've not quite finished the first week and I have a little catching up to do but I am enjoying it. I don't know if this is a career path I'd choose though.
It's my birthday next week! I've got nothing planned but maybe we'll try to find the time to actually go out for dinner. The kids are going to hate it when they are older and having to buy presents as it is the Mr's two days before mine. I'm a year older than he is so for two whole days we were be the same age before I roll over in to another year. I've given him a list of things that I wouldn't mind but if he were to get none of them I wouldn't mind. I've asked for a new phone case and a cd among other things but nothing too exciting. To be honest being able to pee in peace would be a great birthday gift.