Six

Quite simply the number of months that I have officially been a stay at home mom. Do I love it....yes. Are there days where I wonder if I am doing the right thing, if I am doing a good job, am I teaching Cooper all that I am supposed to...YES. I think that comes with the territory whether you stay home or not. Those things I cannot be sure of just yet but what I can be sure of is that I love getting to spend my days with one of God's greatest gifts...my sweet little boy. I love kissing his sweet chubby cheeks whenever I want and getting those big bear hugs and watching his eyes light up as he discovers new things around him each day.

I am never going to be one that says this is a job for everyone but I will say it is what we needed for OUR family. We needed some stability and to not always be rushing from one babysitting scenario to the other because of constantly conflicting work schedules. We needed to be able to sit down and have some meals together and we needed time to figure what the heck we were doing. This has allowed us to do all of that. We are so much happier.

So, as for my career I have taken a drastic turn in job responsibilities. LOL... At the moment I am an official diaper changer, boo boo kisser, meal preparer and caretaker for my family. I am blessed to be all of those things and realize that not everyone wants to do it or can do it for whatever reason. I'm thankful for my husband who sees the value in all the work done here every day and for working so hard each day so that I can be home. There will always be time to go back to working outside of the home full time and as of now I do plan to do that in a few years. When I left my job I was so encouraged by so many wonderful and quite successful women who all said they did the same thing.

It took me a while to find my groove because a few years ago or even while I was pregnant you could have never convinced me in a million years I'd be staying home. I loved my job when it all came down to it even though it was always crazy busy it was always a challenge and that was exciting and rewarding. Most importantly I worked with some pretty awesome gals ;-) I still get my fix of these lovely ladies by going to visit every few weeks or whenever we can. I also still work from time to time which is nice too. Pretty sure they can't get rid of me that easily.

None of this was ever MY plan but we all know how these things go. The best laid plans are not our own and that's a good thing. I would have missed out on a lot ;-)