New Schedule

I recently started a new job at work.  The job is a promotion but comes with some very different hours.  My new schedule means that I am going to get to spend more time with Madelyn because I will be home 3 mornings a week and every Friday.  But, it also means that  I am going to miss dinner and bedtime 3 nights a week.

Yesterday was our first day that I was home in the morning and not home for bedtime.  Madelyn was very confused about why Grandma wasn't there, and I am pretty sure that whatever I did for breakfast did not live up to the Grandma standard.  However, she was happy to have me home to play with her and it was nice to have a relatively relaxing morning split between trying to take care of things and playing.  However, bedtime was not so great.  Madelyn called me twice; the first time she was pretty happy to talk and tell me about her day and say goodnight.  But the second time she was crying for Mommy to come home.  That was pretty tough for me... Justin said she ended up crying herself to sleep after about a half an hour

I know we'll all get used to this new schedule but until Madelyn is ok with bedtime I have a feeling that I am going to have a rough time with it.  In the end it will be a good thing, but the short term is tough.