The Calm....

Since April my Husband has been working in "the field"... He's a Journeyman Welder with the Boilermakers Union.

We've been lucky to have him pull jobs close to home since April.... Even if it meant an hours drive to and from work after a 12 hour shift... At least he was home every night! An unusual thing for us as we had been trained for 4.5 years beforehand to two weeks of 7:30-4:00pm and then two weeks of 4:00-12:30am shifts..... So it was a whole other thing to see him every night!

Then came the end of June where things became slow....

We have been very lucky to have Tyler (my Husband) home everyday since then! He was able to see our first born graduate from Kindergarten (whoo hoo!) and be able to spend more 'normal' time with our second born (our children are a year and a half apart.... So our second born has only known shift work schedule...).

Then the rumors started that shut downs would be coming at the beginning of August. We were two weeks into our 'holiday' of Daddy being home and made the crucial decision to keep Tyler home for as long as possible to move him up on the list.

It has now been about 6 weeks.... And we have a new job coming up... Which is quite exciting to have a regular cash flow coming in again... But I've gotten a bit used to having Tyler around everyday. It's nice being able to do outings with him instead of having to tell him about the excitement of the day!

This new job is a maintenance one... the shut down one was taken by the others that had the same game plan as we did... And who ended up on the list above Tyler...

That's okay though, any job is a good one at this point!

It's a night shift.... Starts around 6pm and is called for 10 hour shifts.... It's also not close to home. It'll be about 4-5 hours away from here... The call is for 22/6. For those of you who don't understand what I just wrote it means 22 days on and 6 days off...

We've been away from Tyler before, the girls and myself, for long periods of time... A week here and there. Just this year I drove the girls down south to visit with Tyler's parents (a 7 hour drive) for the first time on my own and then a few weeks later we did the long drive to Manitoba for our good friends' wedding... (over a 10 hour drive which we did straight)...

None of that scared me like the thought of being home with the girls for 22 days alone scares me. Maybe not scare scare me... But makes me feel like this challenge that I may not survive very well...

So in three days the man of our household will be heading out.... And his girls will try their very best to make him proud and not kill each other before he gets back! *L*