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My layoff: Decisions to be made

November 19th, 2009, 2:07 pm by Michelle Reese

My husband and I have lots to talk about over the next few weeks. With my pending layoff, decisions have to be made about our financial spending.
Two of the questions at hand directly involve my kids.
With mommy not working, I don’t need my daughter to be in daycare. But she’s entering kindergarten in the fall, and she’s gaining a lot from her preschool time now. I really don’t want to rip her out of her class and away from her friends and teacher. I feel there is great value to this time.
I’ve already made a mental committment to keep her in preschool. If we knock off the fees for early- and after-care (assuming I don’t land a job right away), that just leaves the monthly preschool fee.
That’s doable until summer.
The second question involves my son’s after-school care. He LOVES LOVES LOVES his after-school program. It’s what he looks forward to most. It is his down time. It is his play time.
But this is definitely something we won’t need after my job ends. And the expense isn’t cheap.
My husband and I will talk about it with the kids, they are 4 and 7, but I know they’ll be disappointed.
Since my job ends during their holiday break, perhaps that “routine” being changed anyway will ease the additional changes we make to it. But still, I can already hear the sadness in my son’s voice when I tell him he won’t be going to the after-care program.
And that breaks my heart.

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Taking vacation without daddy

September 22nd, 2009, 4:01 pm by Michelle Reese

vacationdaddyIn a few weeks, my son has fall break. Seeing as I would have to shell out a bunch of money to put him in camp while I work - and seeing as I have the vacation time - I’m scheduled to be off.
But here’s the catch: we’re taking a trip without daddy.
I took time off during spring break, too, but we stayed close to home. My son has his tonsils out (his sister still went to day care a few days because it’s a month-to-month payment and, well, it was paid for).
But this time around, even with my daughter’s situation, I’m planning a trip to California.
Without my husband.
I have more time off than him, partly because of the structure of each of our companies and partly because I’ve just been here FOREVER.
When my kids where younger and I didn’t work full-time, we took similar trips to So Cal . At the kids’ young ages, daddy’s absence wasn’t so glaring.
But now they’re older and I’m worried about how they’ll respond. And I’m worried about being fair to my husband.
We’re only going for four or five days. The kids are excited about seeing my dad and family. And I have no doubt about taking the trip.
It’s not like my husband will be sitting around. He’ll be quite busy with work and football (he’s a volunteer Pop Warner coach).
I’ll just miss the fact he isn’t there enjoying the beach with us.
But I guess it’ll all even out. During the Christmas holidays, when I don’t have any more time off, he’ll be the one with the kids.
They’ll probably stay home and watch holiday movies.

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Mom, I want the camera

September 22nd, 2008, 12:26 pm by Michelle Reese

I cleared out some of the pictures on the digital camera this weekend and found these. Since most of the photos in my scrapbooks are of the kids - I probably should keep them. But then again, maybe this is WHY I don’t keep photos of myself around! I can’t help it. When one of my kids picks up the camera - I can’t just smile and say ‘cheese.’ Maybe that’s why they don’t either!

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