What You've Been Waiting For

Starting at the end of May, I get to be a stay-at-home mom!

(at least for a year, then we will see what happens)

There it is! In writing!

This is really happening.

I have been holding my breath, biting my nails, and

just been plain too terrified to get excited.

But let’s face it. We spend what we make. I am tired, stressed to the max, and not rich.

My kids are growing up without me.

Life is short and uncertain.

It’s about time to simplify and prioritize around these parts.

I went to college straight out of high school, got two degrees, taught for 7 years…

I did what I thought was the responsible “next step in life”.

And I think being a working mom is over-rated.

(gasp)

I won’t get into the logistics of my chaotic day.

Long story short…

It is just seems impossible for me (this may not be true for everyone) to be a good teacher, a good wife, and a good mom.

I feel like most days our life style is about surviving, not truly living.

I want to fully take in my kids.

I don’t want to rush them into the car every morning.

I want to have time to make them breakfast and sit with them and visit as we eat it.

I want to drop them off at preschool and sign up for holiday party supplies.

I want to pick them up and ask what they did that day.

I want to have the time and energy to laugh and play with them in the evenings.

I want to make my husband dinner.

I will tell you right now, our house will not always be clean…

I will not always have an amazing dinner on the table…

We will be poor of money but rich in spirit.

I will get to enjoy my children and my husband and take life in with them.

So I will use my two degrees to raise three...(or four) children well and be a domestic goddess.

We go back in two weeks...

just to double check...

my doc may have seen two in there today...

(How much fun can I have?)

Oh, and we are buying a mini-van.

Whoop! Whoop!

Let’s get this party started.