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WELCOME! It's not too bad. You'll see.

Do tell!

I'm sure that it is quite nice in here! I certainly didn't mean any disrespect toward any of you, by hiding behind the couch. I just would rather that our circumstances didn't warrant me having a need to be here.

Money is tight, VERY tight! So much so that I'm starting to wonder if Bankruptcy isn't a consideration. Ever since we lost that chunk of money trying to get the Billiard Center off the ground, we haven't been able to get our financial footing back. So, I've started working at the local Deli as a clerk, which is the work I was doing before I went on maternity leave almost 22 years ago. It isn't that I haven't done anything all those years, but nothing in an official capacity, with a schedule.

I will work evenings and weekends, so that Mark can be here with the children. There will be a 2 hour overlap in the later part of the afternoon, but my older children are more than competent to hold down the fort.

There is a part of me that is quite angry that we are in this predicament. Yet, there is another part of me that LOVES to interact with people, which this job will provide plenty of. Also, being that it is a small town, of which most of them already know Mark through the post office, it won't take anytime before I'll know just about everyone. This has its advantages and its downfalls. HOPEFULLY, the former will win out over the latter.

Oh, I didn't mean here, I meant working. Working isn't so bad.

Though I TOTALLY understand the anger about the predicament. That I understand. :hug:

;) Now I understand where you were coming from! I've been so tired the past few days and only realized this morning that the new vitamin I've been taking for menopause, doesn't have any iron in it! Obviously, I must still need it. I need to go an take a nap, something that I just don't need to do but on a rare occasion. I'll survive well enough though, because I have to! :lol: Sorry to be so pissy.

;) Now I understand where you were coming from! I've been so tired the past few days and only realized this morning that the new vitamin I've been taking for menopause, doesn't have any iron in it! Obviously, I must still need it. I need to go an take a nap, something that I just don't need to do but on a rare occasion. I'll survive well enough though, because I have to! :lol: Sorry to be so pissy.

At first I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side

You must be waning nostaligic today! :) I'm headed for a nap, have to leave in a little over 2 hours. Thanks for the shot in the arm!

:waving: Tell us more tell us more! (when/if you have a chance that is, LOL)

:hug: I hope it turns out to be not too bad, and everything you need.
The social interaction aspect is definately a good benefit!

Well, outside of the fact that my sacrum is KILLING me (I have an icebag on it now to reduce the swelling), I LOVE my new job!

The people are really down to earth and SO easy to work with. The lady who will be my superior on most nights, recently stepped down as the Deli Manager, due to needing to be with her children during the day. She and I are very compatible and I think that it is going to be a blast to work there. I was almost driven to embarrassment, when she lauded how well I fit in with the routine, even to the main store manager! I'm tired, hurting, but content that I will be able to survive this. THANKS!

ETA She added 2 more days to my schedule this week, which puts me just shy of 40 hours. One of the downsides though, is that I will be working late on Christmas Eve. It's never easy being the low man on the totem pole.

Susannah- welcome. I'm glad that your job provides some social stimulation. Mine doesn't provide much face to face and I miss that. I'd suspect that you won't be low person too much longer. You'll get promotoed I'm sure.:)

And I have to ask what is a sacrum?

Hi Natalie! Thanks for the vote of confidence. The Sacrum is the area of the lower back, between the coccyx and the lumbar areas. I just came back from the Chiropractor, who "put me in line". <grin>

My time in this forum will be short lived. I went in and spoke with the Deli Mangager, explaining that I need to complete my committment to her, but that I want to be done.

Last Wednesday evening, my 20yos came to the store to see me. When I asked him what brought him there, he looked at me with a look of anguish and said, "Mom, I haven't seen you in THREE DAYS!" I knew then that I had to be home.

The rest of my family seems to systematically be reacting as well. My 4 year old has been having extremely loud screaming sessions and times of being shut down. My 7 year old keeps asking me almost every minute of the day when I am leaving, and being very surprised when I return home, even from a chiropractor appointment saying, "Mom, YOU'RE HOME!" It is all more than my family can handle, so Mark and I have decided that it is better to let my house in Illinois foreclose, than to bring about any more suffering upon my family.

Heaven knows that we have done everything we could to rectify this ever worsening financial disaster, but we just can't keep fighting it any longer. Ron and I purchased that house for $65 and invested time, elbow grease, and $$'s, to bring its value up to $102. However, the economy is SO bad that I can't even sell it for $50. IT SUCKS!!! And, it has been angering me that we can't even get out of it, what we initially purchased it at. I am not a quitter! However, this is a losing battle and we are already bearing a number of battle scars, with little room for more.

So, I'll be here for another 2 weeks, until the end of the year, then I'll quietly excuse myself and once again be a simple SAHM. I'll keep myself busy with birth work, because it is in my blood and I just can't get away from it, but I will no longer have an official job.

I so very happy that this forum is here as a wonderful support system for moms who do work outside of the home!! Keep up the good work!