Life on the front lines is a rough one for these soldiers. Some days they are woken at 5am and a soldier must attempt to hold back the onslaught alone until reinforcements arrive. By 630 the soldier in the galley slaving away. At 7 (except on weekends, god bless them) reinforcements arrive and the real labor begins.
Work has been tough on John these past few weeks as he transitions into his new role as "continuous improvement manager." He's also taking an online six sigma course and must work on that at night after work (and helping me with Isabella).
I am still working on balancing my new job and taking care of Isabella. She doesn't like me dropping her off for daycare but seems happy and talkative when I pick her up. Library work is much more fast-paced than I thought, mostly because they switch us from checkin to checkout to telephones to help desk every hour. So we never spend long enough at any one station to get bored. Perhaps my opinion about this will change after I've been there long enough. I'll let you know. But I can say that everyone is very nice so far and the toughest part is dealing with patrons who claim to have returned a book that, according to our system, has not been returned.
Isabella seems happy and talkative. She doesn't speak many words yet (except momma, dadda, uh-oh, versions of "ball" and "more") but she babbles pretty continuously. We're looking forward to discovering what she's saying. Overall, her favorite things to do include picking fruits and vegetables from the garden or upick and stuffing herself, playing at the park, and drawing. She also likes to dismantle lego structures, watching PBS, and jumping on the beds. Her favorite toy is her stuffed monkey (who she carries everywhere) but she's also attached to all her blankets and her push-along cart and pretty much all of her dollies. She also loves to push all of the buttons on the computer - so I'd better go before she reaches them. Hopefully pictures soon.
No comments:
Post a Comment