My First Day of Long Service Leave
Today is my first day of long service leave. I’m celebrating by cleaning the house!
My youngest started full-time school today.
All 3 of my children have worked hard to make the transition as painless as possible by being absolutely feral for the past week. Plenty of bickering and whining and stirring going on. Enough to make me kind of relieved that school went back today.
How kind and thoughtful of them to do that for me. 
I did spend an hour in Trailer Boys classroom this morning. While he was rather excited, he did get a little overwhelmed at first when we got to school. But he settled in after a while as I expected he would.
So, now I’m home. Alone. Attempting to clean away some of the feral-ness the school holidays has left upon my home. And breaking out in a sweat in these 40+ degree temperatures.
The long-service leave?
Well, I’ve spent the past 11 years at home with kids under 5. And people start asking you what you’re going to do when your youngest starts school. So, I tell them I’m taking long-service leave. I’ve worked full-time in this job for more than 10 years so I figure I deserve it. Even if it’s only 8-4. I’ll even get paid just as much as I did as a full-time mum! 
My actual plans this term are to go through the entire house and declutter as much as I can. After several years of keeping up with the basics as best we could, it is in desperate need of a decent declutter, sort out and deep clean. When that’s done, I may even get some painting done.
How does that sound for an exciting way to spend my long service leave? 
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I hope you take some time off to have fun. And relax!!!
Painting? Walls? Furniture? Landscapes? Do tell. I love to paint furniture. But hubby won’t let me do the bookshelves, they’re all different and I’d like them all the same. Which involves choosing a colour, emptying the shelves, moving them outside, gosh, no wonder he doesn’t want me to do them. I’ll just have to wait until (if) I move house again. Get them done before unpacking books, yeah that’ll work.
Congratulations. Make sure you have some Lightening time in all that project work you are envisaging.
Long Service Leave!! Awesome… I am now counting up my years of service and figuring out when I will qualify!! Enjoy!
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I likes that thinking!
Mine started back today………. I keep looking around the house and wondering where to start……….. lol
If you get through yours I have another project for you!
What is long service leave? I’ve never heard of it.
Congratulations - getting your last child off to school happily is a big achievement. I had our third child (our only daughter) start school this week. Once she was settled, I then made a quick exit - I didn’t want her to see me cry! I think post natal hormones may have had something to do with it.