One of the things that happened in the last six months - since I last wrote in my blog - was my starting a new job. I had been working for a large title company in Houston, working late nights and making a long commute from home to Houston and back. I got the opportunity to work a little closer to home at a local school district just across the lake from Conroe where we live. I took the job with the understanding that I would get school vacation dates (except for summers. They are our most busy time) plus sick and vacation days. This was welcome news after having a max of 20 days of vacation and sick time off in previous employment - not to mention all the time away from my family. So, I took the job. Pretty easy choice.
At the time, I didn't realize that I had the option of bringing my children with me to school in the district, which as a school employee, I had the right to do. When I started the job, I posed the question of transferring to all of my children, but only the youngest chose to make the change. Eventually her siblings decided to made their break from our local school district and now make the trip with me every day.
Now, after 6 months of going to school together, the 5 of us are getting spring break together (my wife doesn't work for the school district. She had to take off in order to spend it with us). It's the first time I've gotten a spring break since I was a student myself. We were planning to do some tubing down the Guadalupe and Comal Rivers in New Braunfels, but thanks to a cold snap, we're just going to be doing some sight-seeing for now. Of course that involves a little bit of driving and right now that means the 5 of us are spending a lot of time in a beat-up, 4-door Saturn SL1. But, considering the fact that I was spending so much time away from my family a year ago, being packed in a little car ain't all that bad.
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