What I Learned This Week

What I Learned This Week:

1.  Cooking can be fun!  Although just because the Food Network makes it look easy, doesn't mean it is.

2.  I love my Dyson Vacuum

3.  Lord of The Rings is better than Therapy!

4.  There is something very relaxing about coloring with your Kid... even if it is a Star Wars coloring book!

5.  Having a Kitten isn't for Sissies!  (My kitten is Satan's Furball-he is brutal!!)

6.  Not working 40+ hours a week makes it a lot easier to keep up on Laundry, Dishes, Cooking, and cleaning!

I feel like I am getting the hang of this SAHM thing!  Time will tell...

Figuring This Out

So, It has been almost a month.  Almost a month FULL of uncertainty, chaos, rambling, crying, laughing, projects, and so forth.

I have enjoyed spending this time with my son.  I have enjoyed growing as a Mother, and learning how to cope with the endless boredom of my day.  HA!  Boredom.  There are days that feel terribly slow.  But the home renovation is really helping with that.  I have really been able to focus on that.  I can't lie though and say that my supplemental income could have really helped with me being able to DECORATE the new remodel!  Oh how I would love to just have a few hundred bucks laying around that I could go NUTS at Hobby Lobby, Tai Pan and others with! ;)

My son and I are finally beginning to have the understanding of what this means for both of us.  He is starting to be a bit more cooperative with me, and I have learned more patience than I have had in the past.

This is a good thing... This is a good thing... This is a good thing....

The Beginning

I was comfortable with my life.  I was comfortable with working Monday-Friday.  I was comfortable with my 3 year old son going to play with my Cousin or Sister and their kiddos all day.  I was comfortable with my job.  Then January 16th, it all changed.

I knew the company was struggling, I just didn't think that I would be the one to go.... I should have known.  I should have seen it in the history of dealing with the people of that company.  I didn't.  It came as a total shock, when my Boss, who I thought of as a friend, told me those dreaded words: "I'm going to have to let you go."

That is to say, it was a shock.  I let him know my feelings, and even had him convinced to NOT Lay me off, and to go a different way with it all.  Once I got home though, I thought about it.... would it really be so bad?  Financially, we would take a hit, but it wasn't a Death Blow.  But could I do it?

Could I go to being a Stay-At-Home-Mother?  How could I do it?  How would my son adjust?  Those thoughts were the most terrifying of all!

It has been 2 weeks.  I have had my ups, I have had my downs.  I have laughed, and cried.  I am adjusting.  I still feel lost, but at the same time, feel like this is where maybe I should have been.  Who knows, maybe I will FINALLY get this little Monster Potty Trained!!

Luckily we are in the middle of a house RENO, and move... that has kept me busy, and I assume it will continue to do so for the near future....

What will happen after though?