Finally Friday

I actually can´t complain because I have only worked three days this week...but they were three days packed with exhausting meetings...Next week will be worse because I have to go to Madrid on Thursday and Friday for the jewelry trade show so I guess this week has been a good warm up.
For those of you who don´t know what I do, I am a sales manager for a company that manufactures and distributes name brand jewelry and watches. Check out our website if you are interested, www.le-cado.com. I actually consider myself lucky to have a job because Spain is definately suffering along with the rest of the world and the unemployment rate is soaring...

The kids have had a hard time adjusting to school and daycare. David cried this week when we dropped him off at school.. Actually, I dropped him off on Wednesday and Friday and he didn´t cry but he was hesitant and complained...but Jose Pedro dropped him off on Thursday and he pulled out the tears....David is a Daddy's boy though and was probably just being dramatic to see what Daddy would do.

Elena went to daycare very happily but she has been very tired and grouchy once she gets home. I don´t think she is getting the quality naps that she gets at home. Both her and David fell asleep at 6PM yesterday and slept through the night (without dinner) until 6:30 AM. It is 8 PM right now and I am about to put them to bed. Hopefully they will sleep in a little tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow we are going to shop the sales. In Spain there are sales only two times a year- after x-mas and in July. It is government controlled (stinking socialism). The idea is to make it an even playing field for all types of businesses (meaning the smallest mom and pop stores to the big international chains) I think it is pretty lousy because when things finally do go on sale the lines and crowds are awful and the stores are always a mess because they don´t have enough personell to keep everything organized.

We plan to get an early start tomorrow so hopefully the kids will behave and things will go smoothly.