Faraway, So Close

Well things have changed a bit since I last posted. Tomorrow (Friday) begins a period of me working 1 less day a week. I've felt for a long time that I could be a better pastor's spouse by helping Sue out more with her job, but always felt exhausted/tired/sick of talking come Friday - which is when Sue is gearing up for Jr High. I was trying to come down from work and relax when she was trying to get ready to go for her busiest night of the week. I'd always gone back and forth on the idea of asking to go to a reduced schedule at work (am I being lazy? Is it stupid of me to give up 20% of my wage? Will my coworkers hate me?) but we really felt that we needed to test this out.

It will be interesting to see where this takes us. It really is only an extra 8 hours of my week that will probably get filled up pretty quickly with 'stuff' (see the next entry, doh!) before I realize it. The challenge will be to not become so busy that we're right back where we started, only with less money to show for it. :)