No more working on weekends!!!

Sorry it's been a few weeks since my last blog. I've been quite busy with getting three kids into their new "back-to-school" schedules recently. It's a lot to keep up with...three children who each have a different teacher, different school supply lists to hunt and gather for, umpteen forms and parent signature sheets to fill out once again for EACH child, even though nothing has changed from last year as far as details go (such as addresses, emergency contact names and phone #'s, doctor's names, insurance information, etc.)!!! Whew!! It seems that each year the amount of paperwork involved seems to increase!

Anyway, now that we are attempting to get everyone on somewhat of a decent school routine, I have a chance to sit down and write for a few minutes. There's not a whole lot that's new going on at the moment worth blogging about. I've had a lot on my mind recently, but I've been trying to refrain from writing about anything too negative. You really don't want to know what goes on in my mind sometimes...it's not always encouraging...and who wants to read about depressing stuff anyway???

Well, on a brighter note, I do have some GREAT news!!!! I just found out that for the first time in the 4 1/2 years I've been working for my employer, that I will finally be able to discontinue working weekends altogether!!! No more working Saturdays or Sundays!!!!! That is very exciting for me!!! You see, I was working Saturday nights up until the summer began. Then, after requesting to make a temporary schedule change over the summer in order to accommodate my kids being out of school and to eliminate any costs of child care for all three over the summer, I was asked to work Sunday nights for the past three months. I agreed to this, but only in exchange for no longer working Saturday nights. I did not want to work every night on the weekends. My employer agreed to this schedule for the summer. Then, recently, we were informed that our office building in Orlando will no longer be open on Sundays to take phone calls. I work in a call center. This means that another one of the sites in a different city in the country will now be open to take the calls on Sundays instead. Great news!!! Since I had originally intended to go back to my previous schedule of working on Saturdays once the school year started again for the kids, I had assumed that I would be no longer working Sundays, but rather Saturdays instead right about now. However, I was asked to submit my own schedule change request since the office is closing on Sundays. We were given the chance to make up our Sunday hours on any other day of the week if we chose to, or to just drop our Sunday hours altogether. Since we are required to work a minimum of 20 hours per week, I did have to select another day to work in exchange for having Sundays off now. I asked if I could simply work Thursday nights now, rather than going back to Saturday nights, as I had previously worked before the summer. It looks like this has now been approved!! Hurray!!! I don't have to work Saturdays or Sundays at all anymore!! This is awesome news!! It means I can take the time as needed for family trips on the weekends or whatever, without having to take vacation time from work, or worse yet, have to miss out on family trips over the weekends altogether if the weekend day is not available for me to take off from work anyway (as is often the case). I am thrilled and it seems as though I just got lucky! If I had been working Saturdays all along during the summer as before, then they would have never asked me to submit a schedule change because I would not have been affected by the office closing on Sundays right now. I guess you could call it being at the right place at the right time!