Today has been a strange one. For the first time in just over 8 months, Jim went to work. I never spoke about it at the time, but last June Jim was suspended from his job for something that he didn't do. He's a bank manager, so it was pretty serious and very stressful. If for no other reason than we couldn't talk about it and if we did, we knew there were the whole 'no smoke without fire' mutterings. When he was first suspended we thought it would be for 6 weeks at the most, while it was investigated. However, for reasons that I can't legally discuss, it was 6 months before he was completely and totally cleared of the accusation. And a week later, he was made redundant.
It's then taken him another 2 months to find a new job (and well done him!! Finance is not a great place to work at the moment!). It's a 2 hour commute and he won't see the girls at all in the week, and it's a pay cut. But it's a job.
So this morning, before the girls and I were out of bed, Jim left the house and went back out to work.
Which meant that with Bella at nursery, the house was very quiet. And just a little lonely.
And it was made a little lonelier by the fact that Lily is poorly and slept most of the day. She was rushed to hospital in an ambulance on Friday, with a seriously sky high temperature and a rash. She was fortunately released a few hours later, but just hasn't recovered yet. Which is heartbreaking because she's more miserable than I've ever seen her.
Add to that the fact that I spent the morning dealing with someone that doesn't deserve a single second of my time and the afternoon discussing legal matters, and it's safe to say that it's been a strange one.
Oh and because Jim started his new job in the middle of the week, he's confused me and I'm now absolutely convinced that it's a Monday!
But the weirdest thing of all is that when Jim was suspended I still couldn't drive. And now I can. And for the first time since becoming a mother, when Jim left for work this morning, I didn't feel trapped in the house. And I didn't wonder what I was going to do. Because I can now drive. And if Lily won't sleep or we have no food, I can load us up into the car and go. Anywhere.
Cool. But strange.
And no, the studio's not finished yet, but as you can see, at least one person around here doesn't care!
