I suppose I can cut to the chase and just say that I finally quit my job. Pretty intense right? I know what you are thinking....after all of those laboring years in college and the lack of teaching positions in the area? How could I do such a thing!? It's not that my job was extremely unbarable or that I don't love teaching, it is just that I LOVE her (Selah) so much more.
For those of you who know me, you know I have always jokingly despised the feminist movement. Not that I am against some of the benefits we've reaped from it nor do I believe women shouldn't work...I have always said it simply because I've always enjoyed the "wife-as-homemaker" concept. While many people don't necessarily like the idea of playing that role, ever since I was a young girl that's what I wanted. Maybe I was brain-washed as a child or maybe it was because I had a great role model.
My mom was the best mom that a kid could have...and because I believed that with all of my heart, it's what I aspired to be. When I was in elementary school we had to write a "When I grow up" speech (that we had to say in front of the whole school, by the way), and while my friends all wrote about becoming vets and doctors, I wrote about becoming a mom...just like my mom. While that was "cute" in elementary school, by middle school it became harder for me to write about being "just a mom". Not because I had changed my feelings about it and not because I couldn't come up with some really good points for my papers, it was because my teachers always made me pick a "real" career...by 6th grade I was already stressed about "what I was going to do" with my future.
As the years passed and more essays were written, I cycled through many (and I mean many) career choices. There was the engineering phase...the teaching phase...then the nursing phase...then the teaching phase again. Each were reasonable and I was completely capable of being good at them....but I decided on teaching.
For the sake of time (and short attention spans...), I did the teaching thing...got married to a wonderful husband...and had a beautiful girl.
The minute they placed that beautiful girl in my arms, I knew I couldn't go back to work...even though that was the plan. Luckily, hubs felt the same way. So after prayer and God opening some doors (hubs got a full-time 4th grade position) we decided that this was what was what needed to be done. And while I plan on doing the teaching thing again one day, this is where I need to be right now. Let me tell you...I couldn't be happier. I feel so blessed to be able to do this because I know that there are a lot of moms out there who want to stay home but are not able to....
I will do my best to keep updating, but in the meantime, I'm going to hang out with my little...