Small Things #2

Morning morning from Mrs Chirpy Face here! Time for Small Things #2 ๐Ÿ™‚

Sorry. I know I shouldn’t be chirpy so early in the day. It’s not right, and it’s just plain inconsiderate. But there it is, and here I am!

I’m feeling all chirpy because this week is the start of my new life/work balance. I’ve blogged before about how working 4 days a week was proving counterproductive for our family. So after the Christmas break I went to see my boss to give my notice in. ย The intention was to go back on the payroll at our shop for a couple of days a week, sorting out our neglected website and social media presence, and then ย trying to cobble together enough freelance bits and pieces to give me another day, thus getting to the Holy Grail of the three day week, which is what seems to work for us at this stage of the kids’ lives.

It’s taken a few weeks to iron everything out but the upshot is that I have now been given a new one day a week contract at work! This is brilliant as I like my employer, and I like the work I do, and also it takes the pressure off with scrabbling for freelance assignments when I’m not qualified to do anything, at all.

There is one fly in the ointment, which is the skint thing. This reorganisation dramatically and scarily reduces my take home pay. And that kind of brings me on to the Small Thing (since technically reorganising my work life is a Big Thing and so I’m not sure qualifies for the MummyNeverSleeps Small Thing Linky).

So my Small Thing is this: Right after gave my notice in, our car died (permanently) and my son brought home a letter about a school residential trip. Both those things come with bills attached and as yet I haven’t figured out how we are going to pay for either of them. Huh? Where’s the Small Thing in that sentence, I hear you cry….well, reader(s), the small thing is the word AFTER.

Because if these bills had arrived before I gave my notice in, I probably would have been ruled by my head and not done it at all. But my heart and my gut – and my kids reactions – tells me that skint or not skint, bills or no bills, I have done the right thing.

So there you have it. Small Thing #2, brought to you by the word ‘after’.

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12 thoughts on “Small Things #2

  1. Wow, this is so scarily where I am up to at the moment. I too am scrabbling for freelance bits and pieces but have a regular one-day-a-week stint at a very lovely company. I also work in the family business (a garage) sorting the website/social media stuff. See? We’re like twins separated at birth ๐Ÿ˜‰

    The balance works well for us, too but I am with you on the skint thing. Still worth it though, isn’t it? Good for you hun; let’s raise a toast to the word ‘after’ xx
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