Day shifts are nice because Blue is home in the evenings.
Night shifts are also nice because Blue is home (and awake) for part of the evenings.
Evening shifts are hard because Blue is only awake in the early afternoon...which can end-up being awkward. Don't get me wrong, when I'm also home at the same time it's nice to sit and have a cup of coffee with him or make him a big breakfast. I just find that when he's gone for the evening I have a hard time caring about things. Dinner? Meh. Bathtime? Meh. Storytime? Meh. Staying awake past 9? Meh.
Tonight it was thrown-together baked spaghetti and X-men cartoons. The kids loved it. I felt like a horrible parent.
I think that I need to try a bit harder to stick to a routine when Blue is on evening shift or else we are going to end-up eating cereal in front of the t.v. for a week straight.
We are moving to this shift in January for an entire year :-(
ReplyDeleteNot that we haven't survived 2 years of it in the past ... But it's definitely not my favorite! Or is there a favorite in shift work ?! Lol. Pros and cons to them all. Nothing wrong with cereal for supper, and as long as the kids are happy all is good ;-)