Exactly a year ago these pictures were taken.
My wife had an in person job interview.
The night before, we said good night at 9pm as it’s a busy day tomorrow. She’s got a 3hr flight and a 4hr interview that included an hour presentation by her to the department she wanted to lead, and multiple managers from different departments.
Past 12 I noticed this woman kept turning side to side, and I finally got up and told her let’s go downstairs.
So we went downstairs, plugged the laptop to the TV, and I asked her to present to me. She presented to me over and over that night.
Before we realized it, it was 4am. Her flight is in 5hrs, I’m supposed to resume work in 2hrs. Kids need to go to school in 3hrs.
It was an easy decision for me to call work and say I’m not coming in today. As a healthcare worker, I don’t go to work when I’m not going to be able to give my 100%.
So I told her to go back to bed. She insisted she’d stay downstairs and watch me as I get ready to prepare the boys’ school supplies and clean up. 10min into that she was fast asleep.
By 7am the boys were ready for school. I left a note by her side in case she wakes up while we were gone. She didn’t.
Placed a kiss on her lips and woke her up with a cup of coffee when I got back. She smelled it and woke straight up. In another hour she was ready to catch the flight.
She did the interview, and after a standing ovation, she was told right there after the presentation on the stage, unanimously, the job is hers if she wants it.
She told them she needed to make a phone call first. This woman called me while on the stage saying “babe we got the job.” I was fast asleep, my brain did not calibrate. I said what job… I was on speaker 😂
Anyway, she resumed the job 2 months later and we have to move the whole family to the other side of the country.