Tomorrow marks the end of an era, the era of "try to somehow manage working full time with no day care solution"
I can't express how grateful and happy I am that this is coming to an end. It has been 7 months since Nikolai has had a regularly daily solution, when I took him out of the Montessori school in Scott's Valley. Since then I have gone through: coming up to speed on a new and challenging job, selling an unsellable house (which included "showing", the challenge of which should not be undervalued), attempting to buy a house, giving up on buying a house and renting a house, packing all belongings from the unsellable house while taking care of a 4 year old while cleaning up the old house while working full time and then getting thoroughly screwed by the movers, DRIVING 2400 miles to reach the destination with a car in my arsenal, receiving all of my belongings to discover that most items which could be broken WERE (some items which I could not imagine would arrive missing pieces were, such as the top of my desk), unpacking some stuff (still, all this time no day care and working without time off), frantically running boxes up out of the basement to save them from a rapidly rising water level (I figured I might have a few months to rest 'til I had to worry about this...I was wrong), finally unpacking everything.
Now: It's all over.
I'm here, I'm unpacked, I love my house, I love this city, I can't describe how much I utterly love my job, I'm happy and NOW I will finally be free to work in peace!
Whew.
Nikolai insists the first thing they will teach him in school is soccer.
