An All Round Good Week

Well this week has been more up and down than a yoyo.

It’s also been stressful as it’s our daughters Birthday and quite frankly I haven’t had time to even think about celebrating it, being at work full time.

However this last couple of days has put a smile on our faces and put us at peace with the world.

On Wednesday night, I came home to find a message on my answering machine asking me to contact someone regarding a job I had applied for.  Nothing special in this you might think.  However, it was a job at a local school that would have been perfect to fit around the family and was for six months.

The job was advertised before Christmas and although I sent my CV in, I was sent a ‘thanks but no thanks’ letter and never even made it to interview.  Jobs in schools are so coveted, I wasn’t surprised.

So to find that I was only one of three people who they had contacted, I was rather chuffed.  Apparently the person they had taken on, had started, then accepted a longer term offer somewhere else.

I phoned up the lady, who was really pleased to hear from me and although we had a nice chat I couldn’t go for the role as they needed someone to start 19th Feb.  The temporary job I am in at the moment is until the end of March.

But none of that mattered. For me, it was simply that they had taken another look at my CV and considered me worthy to bring in . . . . . someone liked me.

Our second piece of good fortune happened today when my husband received some unexpected money, which is a godsend.  It was a rebate and will really help us out with some bills we have.

Thirdly, I cheekily asked at work if I could leave at 3.15 today.  Even as a temp I like to make sure it fits in with everyone.  They agreed and in the space of an hour and a half, I had the chance to pick my son up from school, get the balloons for my daughters Birthday  and go and do some food shopping.

We were back home by quarter to five.  We also sorted tea out.  As a treat the children asked for McDonalds.  Yuk to me, but I saw no reason for them not to have something they wanted especially as they had all been good tonight.

I did the shopping while my husband went and got the take out.

I didn’t ask for anything, but sometimes I’ll have a bag of fries.  When my husband met us at the shop I said did you get me anything and the answer as I expected was no.  Fine, I hadn’t asked for anything.

Imagine my surprise when I opened a happy meal and tucked in the bottom of the box was an extra bag of fries.  I got my wish.

So a big thank you to whoever has been looking after us this week.  We really appreciate it.

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