The boys had a cross country meet this morning, once again at Lincoln Park. Hopefully this’ll be the last race where they’re contending with heat. It’s really something how when they start the season it’s hot and by the end it can be pretty cold. We have another trip to Nebraska planned for the end of next month where we can see another meet there. Grandma wants to plan to go next fall sometime she hasn’t seen one yet.

This is my weekend to work. For whatever reason it’s getting more and more psychologically difficult in the time leading up to the days I have to go and also when I am actually there. It’s been a good way to pay for school and and have extra money to give to the kids for theirs. I just do not like the feeling that something can go wrong at the drop of a hat. I am contemplating asking if I can drop it down to four hour shifts.

This past evening it was nice because the supervisor, the CNA, and I all sat down and ate our salad bar together. Usually you eat alone in shifts but with being down two residents at the current moment it opened up more time to have that spontaneous opportunity. You wouldn’t think 14 to 12 would make that much of a difference but it does. At some point I realized too that the calendar changed and we’re in autumn now.