It looks like the end of the CEO World Tour is finally coming! Tim is wrapping up his 14 month stint traveling weekly to Philadelphia. It's a complicated story but he will technically still be an employee through January. He will be working primarily from home with a few trips interspersed in between.
Tim doesn't really like to be away from home as much as he has been. It's what he agreed to do when he took the job but it's been challenging for him. So, in order to make his job/commute somewhat easierI've worked hard to make sure that when Tim comes home on Thursday nights that I'm available for the weekend - no stress, no agenda. Most of the time, we stay home because Tim's been gone all week, we eat at home, drink our own wine. Sometimes we have friends over. And, for the most part, it's been fun.
How do I feel about this? Really, pretty good! It will be the first time in our 26 year marriage that we have spent this much time together. Lesley was born after three years and then within five years we had three children. We were busy, busy, busy! Early in our marriage, when our kids were young, Tim was home every night. When he left private practice and went corporate, he really started traveling a lot. So, we've lived like everyone else with partners traveling. When Tim took a year off before, I was in school, very busy. So, while he won't be home everyday all the time, things will begin to look a little more normal for us. There's no kids home so the time will just be for us and whatever projects we are working on. Weird!
Except for, I've almost gotten used to having my time and space from Monday-Thursday. The hardest time for me is always the evenings. I'm used to the kids being gone all day but when it's 6:30 and it's dark, I'm ready for bed! So, I've worked hard to establish a "schedule" for myself - no tv before 8, read, walk, work out. Most importantly, I have some good friends that I really enjoy doing things with. It's been a lot of fun. I go out for dinner during the week, go for lunch - no one to answer to but myself.
Transitions are interesting. It will be nice to have a full time mate but it will take some getting used to!
Gonna go walk!
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I hear you sister! I have to readjust here pretty quickly myself. Having to check in with someone and be accountable to them again is going to be weird.
Let me know how it works out. The difference with you is that you are empty nesters now. At least we'll have the kids to argue about!!! HAHAHA!!
You're lucky you have the kids to argue about! It's interesting!
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