I am admitting it; it is bittersweet. While it is necessary for everyone's sanity that he has a purpose to his day and somewhere to go, it was very nice having him around. If we didn't need money to live on, I'd actually be fine having him around all the time. The Jeff we got to experience this past month and a half was relaxed, funny, helpful, and a joy to be around. Fortunately he didn't freak out at all about being unemployed and having to find a new job. The first interview he went on after being let go is the company he decided to work for. Jeff took time and worked the process of checking out a bunch of other companies, going on interviews, speaking with recruiters and making sure this is who he wanted to say 'yes' to. Then it took a while to get the background check finalized and to hear the first official day would be September 22nd.
Each day Sam would look at Jeff and ask when he would finally be getting a job. Then she'd comment how he should've never left Sapient, the company he was with 5 years before trying something new that didn't work out. Leave it to Sam to tell it like it is.
Jeff had to dust off his alarm clock and set it once again this morning. He is back among the working world. I am no longer the sole breadwinner. Ha! Ha! If you knew what I make in a month, you would find this highly entertaining too! We are extremely fortunate that between the 2 weeks notice, 2 weeks severance, and small amount of vacation time he had built up in only 3 months, we had a little more than 1 week without his paycheck. But the 6 weeks he got to recover from the disaster that was his last job is priceless. Believe me it was a nightmare to be around him for those 3 months he was working. He was constantly stressed, freaking out, and working around the clock not sure he was doing anything right. Now Jeff is heading to this new company relaxed, rested and ready to do great things!
We managed to keep life as close to normal as possible while the fate of when Jeff would be bringing home the 'bacon' was getting figured out. Other than not signing Sam up for gymnastics or being able to follow through with all the donations I've verbally committed to, we did ok. Oh yeah, and now I can order my photo books I made from my trip to Israel and our week at the beach. Kudos to Jeff for not being ultra-conservative and suggesting we stop the newspaper being delivered and/or get cable tv turned off. Or G-d forbid, asking me not to go to the movies.
We will go back to our regularly scheduled life with Jeff leaving the house bright and early each weekday morning. And I am back to juggling the kids before and after school solo. It will take some getting used to, but I think we will adjust just fine.
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