Luxury Baths

When I first left my ex-husband in 1999, I kind of scored on my first rental trailer. It was situated out in the country alongside French Creek. It was very beautiful there, we even saw eagles fishing in the creek and in the morning when I would go to work, sometimes, there would be a blue heron sitting on my front lawn. If it wasn't for the evil landlord, it would have been ideal.

One selling point for me, besides all of this beauty and privacy with a long driveway away from the road, was the spa tub! I've never owned one before and I certainly never expected to have one. It came to be invaluable to me for my sanity.

I left my ex-husband with no job and no real marketable skills, in my own opinion. He wouldn't allow me to work. I taught Sunday school for many years, did some part-time gigs during separations with phone sales and I taught vacation bible school as well as home-schooled my own children. Believe it or not, I was snapped up, but not just one job, three jobs and all three were part time and didn't paid much. Waitressing, Retail sales at now defunct Kaufmann's on the watch counter, and West Corporation, phone orders.

In order to compensate for the lack of child support that my husband was paying ?which translates to zero child support) I worked those three jobs seven days a week, sometimes two jobs in one day. Depending on which job I was working is how far I would have to drive home, or, to the other job and then home. Having never work full-time away from the home to going to working three jobs part-time, I was a mess. My only salvation was knowing that I could come back home and soak in that wonderful spa tub with jets.

I owned a cockatiel named Captain that was gifted to me by my best friend, Sharon, as a housewarming present because I loved her bird while she sheltered us for the first month. This bird loved coming into the bathroom with me while I took baths and he would strut along the side of the tub or fly up onto the shower rod. Alternatively, he would come down to me and I would put him on my hand and lower him into the water so that his feet would get wet. He absolutely loved it.

I forgot to mention that I was also still homeschooling both boys. I had been homeschooling for four years, and we had not yet transitioned. Billy was a senior and just needed to finish out the year, so we agreed that he would get to stay home. Initially he was going to assist home-schooling my youngest son who at the time was 12.

Eventually that would have to change and my youngest son would be put in public school out there in the county, but for now, there was all of this and managing a household.... I can honestly tell you that my baths were my oasis and I would stop on the way home from work to buy a new candle as often as I could to relax and enjoy. Sometimes I fell asleep, but it was always nice to get that reprieve.

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