Bumps in the routine

Happy Friday! Oh, how I'm glad it's Friday. We've now had our beautiful daughter, Penny, as a part of our family for almost four months. She is such a sweet girl, and has been ready to help me and Chandra this week during a tough week of "potholes in the routine." Both Chandra and Penny have been dealing with a difficult time of skin maladies that have created lots of pain both physically and emotionally. Last night we realized just how difficult it is to maintain a life of work with two full-time jobs between us and a family life. The Spring Musical at my school has made my sweet wife probably feel like a music teacher's widow for a while, since I'm at all of these late rehearsals. I come home exhausted and none of us feel like doing dishes, laundry, etc. I have to admit, I'm hoping that this unexpected job change that is being thrust upon me soon will have a positive effect in allowing me to discover some joy in getting back into a regular routine of being a husband and father. Perhaps, a part-time teaching job may better suit our family's needs at this point in my life. I'm not sure how that will help financially, but I find that I'm struggling with too much weariness in the grind to enjoy learning to be a father, as well as being a husband that is there, and that is more important than any job. I want to be there for my family, but sometimes I'm not. Our nerves have been a bit frayed this week and it has become all too clear that a change in the routine is what needs to happen. Please keep us in your prayers during this time. I would love to be able to have many more private music students and to resurrect my solo performing opportunities, that have essentially taken a backseat to the last 9 years of teaching. I want to be available to my beautiful ladies at home and not be the husband and father that is in the ship passing in the night.