Onwards and Upwards

So I got a job!

I'm pretty excited about this.  It couldn't be a more perfect job for me...God is so good.  I'm going to be working as a book keeper under an accountant that I know.  I'll get to basically dictate my own hours, work from home when I want to or work at her home office when I want to, and it can be (or grow to be) as much or as little work as I want to take on.  And the best of all - it'll likely only be max a day a week right now which means that our moms can watch the boys and I don't have to search for part time day care.  Win win win!

This could not be more perfect for our stage in life.  I'm not a career focused mom.  I have many friends with amazing gifts that make them so perfect for the jobs that they have and the careers they have chosen, and it makes total sense for them to pursue both their joys of motherhood as well as their calling to their jobs.  They do both well and I have high respect for them.  I just...never had a career call to me in the same way that being a stay at home mom has.  I love being home with my boys.  However, I did learn after going back to work once Tyler was a year old that part of my brain needs to be working to function properly.  I need a bit of outside influence to keep me, well, awake.  We also aren't quite in a place where we can comfortably afford for me to stay home yet so the job search began.  When I got the phone call asking if this job was something I'd be interested in doing, I almost cried.  It's just so perfect for me.  I'm thrilled!

Thankfully my days will still be filled with cookie baking, walks, diapers, curious george, conversations with my favourite chatter box, and all the other wonderful things I love about being a mom.  I will also just get to feel a bit more...adult.  Well rounded.  Accomplished.  Whatever.