Change Management-Family Style

Ok in my professional life we pay consultants big money to manage change. I wish I could have afforded one for the last month or so. Wow, it has been a mass of change. Ben is doing fine in Kindergarten and finally transitioned to the bus. He is growing in mind, body and spirit. I am amazed at this kid. His transitions to big brother and fulltime bus riding student has been successful and I am very proud of him.

Bryce is coming into his own and the layers of his past are being shed. He is talking albeit it a bit slow, he is talking. He has transitioned to daycare and is doing well with the new father’s helper in the afternoons. He is starting to laugh and be very funny with a somewhat comedic timing that is really a joy to be around.

As for the last month that has flown by….It was determined that the alleged father of Bryce is not the father, so we are off on another tangent, which I foresaw with the legal quagmire. However, it is moving along in the right direction. The new puppy is adapting and still terrorizing the kids in a way that only a golden retriever puppy can. I am still searching for a new job but am content to stay where I am until the round of transition is complete. I hope by thanks giving we are all settled in.

The remainder of the transition is mine to complete. My sister has breast cancer and I left both kids for the first time on a moments notice to be with her through surgery. We all survived and the kids did great and so did I. Despite the circumstances, it was good for me to go away for a bit. The kids worked the nanny and the sitters but survived. I left a 20 month old and came home to a terrible two year old, my five year old barely noticed I was gone, which is good.

My nanny leaves today, and I begin my journey of being on my own again. I am thankful for the time he was here but I am ready to be alone with my kids and house and dogs again. I am terrified, sort of…but I just need to get back to my organized self and it will be fine.

I started a GLBT playgroup, for parents and kids and it is going well. The first one was this past week and we had about 20 people and kids. It was great, needed and I am thankful it will continue on a monthly basis and grow. I have had little time for me lately but am more content than I have been in a while as the transition settles and it is left up to me to complete the journey. The best part about it is that the kids are all right and it is just change at this point, just change.