Within a short amount of time, Tod started a new job at Amazon Web Services, after 20+ years with his previous job, and we had two kids in high school, including one who needs to stay after 4 days a week for theater rehearsal.
Everything feels pretty discombobulated.
All those years we heard parents complaining about getting their kids here and there, with events several days a week...well, we had none of that. We knew we had it easy, but goodness is this a transition.
Before this year, we ate dinner pretty much right at 6 p.m. every day. Now we are waiting for Amy to get home at 6:50 p.m. so we can still all have dinner together. It's thrown our evenings off by a lot. It's all good, it's just different! And if I have a meeting or Tod has somewhere to be, then some days some subset of us doesn't even really get to see each other at all. I leave for work before the kids are up, and sometimes have to leave for a meeting before Amy gets home. Tod's schedule is also very different now, traveling to Herndon every day...which is a real commute, unlike before when he was in Chantilly and also pretty much made his own hours. Now his days are longer and lengthened substantially by a commute of at least 35 minutes each way, because there's so much traffic.
I think our family equilibrium is a little off right now but hopefully we will settle in soon. Just in time for something else to change, no doubt!
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