The Grave Yard Shift
When my children were young and in school, I worked night shift by choice. In that way, their father could be with them all night and I could get them off to school and then go to bed. I also could go to any school related activity that they had since I got home at 8am and didn't go back to work until 10pm.
I worked night shift for about 5 years and there is one thing I can say about it. It made me feel like I was perpetually sick with cancer. I rarely got dressed, I wore my "jammies" all the time. I woke when my children came home from school, fixed dinner and then napped until I went back to work.
As soon as my children were old enough, I switched shifts and immediately felt human again living in the "real world."
God bless those that work the night shift.
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