Life of Mine

The time has come

For a long time now, Chuck and I have been talking about the fact that our weekends are ruined by my working only on weekends.  I have wanted to quit working weekends for a long time so that we can actually have family time together. 

I only work until 2pm every Saturday and Sunday but by that time, what is there to do?  Years ago, we used to jump in the car on a whim and take road trips, not going anywhere in particular but we enjoyed it.  We haven’t done that in more than 2 years.  We used to just pack up the car and go fishing for the day.  Again, we haven’t done that in more than 2 years. 

To be honest, this has been a sore subject in our house for the past year.  It has caused arguments.  Nothing major but we are sick of going over the same talk every few weeks.  The time has come for me to quit working the weekends. 

I don’t have another job lined up yet but we are willing to cut out my small income in order to have more family time and work on getting back to where we used to be.  Our kids are growing so fast and before our eyes.  We need this time to create family memories and have our kids remember us as a close knit family, not one that never gets to spend time together for an entire day.  We used to have slumber parties, just us in the living room on the weekends for fun, I can’t wait to do that again.

Some people will probably think that this is ridiculous and irresponsible but to them I say, my family comes first and I have to make my family number one.  I can either work on the weekends and have the same argument over and over or quit working weekends and have a happy family and marriage.  I choose my marriage and family.

I can’t quite express just how happy and excited I am to spend time with my family and be whole again.  I am giving my two weeks’ notice today and in three weeks, we are free for a road trip!!