The Philipbars: A new found gratitude for my job...

So the past two weeks have given me such a feeling of gratitude for my most important job ever...being a mommy! And an even deeper feeling of gratitude that after this week, I will get to be home with my babies all day again!! I started training for a tech support job last week, and it is going very well. I am not actually naturally super tech savvy, but once I am a little familiar with the equipment, I do pretty well. But lets be honest, it is not the first job (or fifth or even tenth really) I would picture myself doing. And apparently my dad felt the same way, because he definitely chuckled a little when I told my parents. haha Obviously he was supportive, and had complete confidence in my abilities, but I am his daughter, and he just has never seen me as a techie. ha WHO KNEW??! But like I said, I am really enjoying it, and I will be set loose, and be all on my own on the phones next monday!! Yikes!! My schedule for the past two weeks has been mon-Fri 12-7. That has taken some major adjustments for all of us! Fortunately, a sweet friend of mine offered to watch Presley and Eliza for us everyday! What a blessing!! She has a 10 month old daughter, and so Eliza has had a little play buddy:) Our days go something like this:

5:00 AM- David gets up and is out the door for work by 5:30 at the latest.* this is a normal thing, poor guy*
10:20ish- David comes home in between work and his 12 pm class and picks us up, along with all of our ~~thousand pounds of~~ gear.
11:20- We meet my friend Karli in the parking lot at my job and she takes the girls back to her house. She is awesome!!
5:15- David gets out of class and picks up the girls...then they come back and wait for me to get out of training at 7.

Add in a lot of screaming babies and can-of-soup-with-grilled-cheese dinners and that about sums it up. haha

Poor David. Every night when I get in the car, ATLEAST one of the girls is screaming. And usually has been for about 10-15 mins straight.
It has been a little rough, but I am grateful it is almost over, and really grateful I have the ability to help out with the finances for a while.

I will be so glad to get in to a NEW normal routine for our little family. Once I start my job and have regular hours that will really not be changing, and we move into our apartment next weekend, we will hopefully be able to just stay put for a while and get to a feeling of "normal"...whatever that may be :)

I will be working the 6:30-1am shift monday-friday, with one random day off during the week. Unfortunately for the first 2 months, I will be working every Sunday, but after that I will switch to saturdays. It will be nice to have saturdays off to hang out with my family, especially since I will basically be seeing David in passing most days. But I will really miss getting to go to church with my little family for a while. It will definitely take some adjusting. I am so grateful I will be able to be home with my girls all day, and that David will be home with them in the evenings. But like I said, my interaction with David will mostly be "hey babe, how was your day? Great! Hope you have a good night, the girls need a bath please, Presley eats again at 8. See ya tomorrow! Love you!" There is no way with getting up at 5 every morning that he will make it to 1:15ish am when I get home, and I wouldn't expect him to. But I will really miss our evenings together, just hanging out. Even if he was studying, at least he was there, and we could talk and BE together. So my couple days off are going to be really nice!

I also have a TWO year old and a FOUR MONTH old!! It seems impossible, but its really true!! I will have to do an update all about them soon, but this post is already pretty long I feel like....but I do have to share one cute story from the other night. While we were all in the kitchen while I was whipping up a feast in the form of soup, of course. Eliza came in and was talking, and dancing and just kind of in her own little world, then out of no where she gets down on all fours and says "I puppy mommy, woof". David and I about died!! It was the cutest thing!! We have never seen her do anything like it before!! Just another indication of how big she is getting, and how BIG her imagination is becoming!! We just love our sweet little girls, even amongst all of the craziness!! So I will do a catch up post sometime about the girls, but here are some cute pictures in the mean time. Obviously I have been bad about taking pictures the last couple of weeks though.