Today was a much better day at work. I didn’t leave with that terrible feeling like I’d missed something. The shift last week got inside my head so much that I wrote to my supervisor around 5 o’clock on a Saturday morning. The girl who was training me said it’s just because I’m new and getting back into things. She told me not to ever lose sleep over things related to work.

I’m feeling a little bit lost these days. This stage of life still feels so foreign to me. I have a son away at college, a daughter who’s regularly out and about with people from school, three other sons who I see but don’t interact with in the ways that I used to. They’re around and I enjoy them but there is still that separation and those stretches of times we don’t see each other or talk more in depth.

This all goes back to the feelings of gratitude we’re meant to cultivate. I am thankful for this job right now and that I’m able-bodied enough to work. Josh made me breakfast before I went in. Tonight we went over to his mom’s for supper. The new house is really coming along on the inside. It’s beautiful and my sister-in-law has done a nice job helping to get it decorated.