big changes coming
I got the news yesterday of a big change coming in our lives. Mary Lou is quitting (to move to the Lancaster area and join a church that is based there so she can become a missionary with them) and I will need to find a new worker for next door OR work the hours myself. She presently sleeps there 7 nights a week and then works around 45 day hours. I hate the job of finding a new worker. I don't trust that I can find a good one. After being burned once by a lying, rebellious and overbearing worker that I didn't know how to fire I am afraid of the same thing happening again. It seems easier to just go over and work those hours myself. But that feels so overwhelming and life-sapping to do. I may just start sleeping over there and try and find a day worker. Or try to find a night worker and move my studio over there again and work on jewelry in the day as I watch over mom. Or a new perfect worker may just drop out of the sky for us!
When Mary Lou told me yesterday I felt like I was hit with a hammer but I had to be gracious and act happy that she was going to go do something that she was excited about. She did give me more than 6 weeks notice - can't get much better than that. I appreciate that. But she has been working for us for 6 years now and it still felt like a "blow" to lose her. She as been very easy to work with in that she takes direction well and I like to be in control of what goes on next door. Mary Lou has been very willing to let me take the lead in figuring out how we will manage mom. The worker I had such a problem with wanted to change everything and do everything her way - because she didn't really know mom she was actually a danger to her. Anyway I am really going to miss Mary Lou!
I am doing my usual Thursday babysitting of Roswell today. Here is a picture that was taken last week - he was eating a cherry Popsicle with a spoon - they are too quick for him otherwise:
When Mary Lou told me yesterday I felt like I was hit with a hammer but I had to be gracious and act happy that she was going to go do something that she was excited about. She did give me more than 6 weeks notice - can't get much better than that. I appreciate that. But she has been working for us for 6 years now and it still felt like a "blow" to lose her. She as been very easy to work with in that she takes direction well and I like to be in control of what goes on next door. Mary Lou has been very willing to let me take the lead in figuring out how we will manage mom. The worker I had such a problem with wanted to change everything and do everything her way - because she didn't really know mom she was actually a danger to her. Anyway I am really going to miss Mary Lou!
I am doing my usual Thursday babysitting of Roswell today. Here is a picture that was taken last week - he was eating a cherry Popsicle with a spoon - they are too quick for him otherwise: