Catherine Anaya’s Latest Blog Post: “It’s An Adjustment”

By: Catherine Anaya

I knew I just had to share it on Facebook: the photo of me at 7:45 on a Monday night, in my pajamas, wine in hand, surrounded by my three favorite people and only four-legged “child.”

We’ve waited a long time for this, I thought, as I posed for our “selfie” with a grin from ear to ear.

After a dozen years working “nights” as we affectionately call it in television news, I’m finally getting to spend my evenings at home with my family.

I figured it might take some adjusting, no longer anchoring the 10pm newscast.

I would now arrive to work about the time I was usually getting ready for work.

I would now leave work for the day right about the time you’d usually find me busting out dinner at my desk.

I would arrive home to conversation rather than a sleeping husband and children.

Even the dog was usually too tired to greet me at the door at 11:30pm!

Not anymore!

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