Official First Day!

My first official day back @ the airport and it's not as bad as I thought. I had a moment with Aaron this morning before he left for work. It was difficult to think that I was going to work not having to worry about Ethan's child care. At some point, I considered going back to work part-time, working the morning flight only so that I can get home to Ethan and Aaron can go to work. I also considered working @ night so that Aaron and I could save on child care.

After all that, I showered and changed, packed a few things for food and headed out. Got my ice coffee all set and I'm back to work. I felt like I never left. It was hard to come back and hear bad news about one of our airport friends. Thomas Caruso from TSA got into a head on motorcycle collision and had died @ the scene yesterday. I thought I was going to have a great day. It's now a somber day. Tom was a really great person. Always so friendly. I don't have a bad thing to say about Tom. I met him here @ the airport when he was working for the county as a custodian. He got a job with TSA about a year and a half ago. He was part of our morning crew, a part of our airport family. He was an amazing worker. We will all miss him.

So far, I helped downstairs with deplaning, helped Nicole board the flight and I closed the flight out @ the ticket counter. Some things that would normally bother me like passengers not tearing apart their web check-in boarding passes, carrying ons that were a little larger than allowed. I pretty much let it go. It's great to be back. I can't complain. I have a job that I love, co-workers who are my family. I may have my moments or not but I'll be ok to keep going. My life doesn't stop here. It keeps going because that is what God intended. My angel was taken because God needed him more, just like my friends and loved ones who have gone this year. God won't give us something that we can't handle. Lives end and some begin and right now, I'm starting to live again. This is what God intended my life to be and so I shall accept it.