birthdays!

today is my hubbys bday!!! 31 years old :)

happy birthday my love.

wow- my first week home

well- it was my first week home...reagan still went to the sitter though..i am trying to get my house in order. since she is my wild child and into EVERYTHING, i figured that it would be easier to try to get things accomplished while she was not here. next week will be the real test of my sanity...

good news- found a part time job. YAY ME! and the best part is, i can do it from home. on my own time! isn't that amazing?? a job that works around my family. i am so grateful that i found this opportunity. so i get the best of both worlds...working mom but still home for my kids. fingers crossed it will all work out :)

i have all these plans in my head of things i want to do now..spend more than two hours a day with my kids (that is the most exciting thing)...update & finish my kids scrap books...blog about things that are bottled inside of my crazy head all day...teach myself to become better with my sewing machine...learn how to truly use coupons...actually get to work out at a gym....all of this and more. i tried to do all this while i was working, it was hard. i am sure it is just as hard while staying home, but again, fingers crossed i will be able to start a new schedule & routine and be able to get a few things from my list done.

i am hoping that along the way i will rediscover who i am . i think that is really the journey i am on right now...finding out who i am so i can be a better mother, wife & friend.

for now- cole

new begininngs

well- i did it...i finally left the corporate job. it was so hard for me because i have been there for 11 years...yes that is right- 11 years. really it has been the only constant, stable thing in my life for the past 11 years. but it was time. when a job starts to affect you 24 hours a day it is time to leave. not to mention that i started to reflect on how much i missed of sterling's life when i was a single mom & had to work. i started to see the same pattern was happening with reagan & i realized the best place for me now is at home with my kids. corporate america isn't going anywhere & i am sure if this doesn't work out the way i hope, i can always go back.

however, we have two new businesses that i am going to try & build form home. we have a great little photography/ design business that is slowly but surely budding!! i am so excited to start taking more pictures to build my portfolio. my hubby is learning the design side so fast it is insane!

the other business we have is a fundraising business. i am so excited to see that take off & be able to give back to so many organizations that are in need right now of vital funding.

well- tomorrow is my first day as a stay at home mom! i am hoping that while i am trying to build a home business & will have a little more time to blog, finish up some scrapbooks (sterling's is still only done up to 6 weeks!! he is 7- that is sad!!) and do a few other things that i have wanted to do for a while now. keeping my fingers crossed!!

for now- cole