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Seasons change and so do I… May 13, 2008

I am joining the world of a WAHM! WAHM stands for Work At Home Mom. That’s right folks I am bringing the work home. This is a major surprise to me and I just know that God has completely opened this door. I never in a million years expected the company I work for to allow me to telecommute.

I’ll tell you what brought this all on. Mom has been watching the kids, but now she is moving to PA to live with my brother. So we had been looking into daycare, but man is that expensive! Plus the summer coming up we were faced with the issue of what to do with William while he is out of school for almost 3 months. So Chris and I sat down and looked at our budget and as it turns out, I would be working just to pay for child care. So the best solution, we thought, would be for me to quit and stay home and continue to go to school. I mustered up the nerve to tell my supervisor “I quit” and she comes back at me with “what can we do to keep you here”? I just stood there and looked at her with this funny smirk and said “well, I don’t know”. So we talked about a few options and telecommuting came up (along with about 14 hours in the office) but doing the bulk of my work at home. Vivian is willing to child swap a couple days a week; that way she can work and I can work child free.

There are still a lot of details to be worked out but this is good news indeed! I owe the big man upstairs big time!!

Couple other updates…

Chris is a working machine. He is really valued at work and they love him. He is going to ask for a raise in June (fingers crossed).

William is about to graduate Kindergarten! What, he is going into the 1st grade!?

Briana is just a beautiful little girl with a lot of attitude!! She is so smart and I am very excited to be spending more time with her during the day. I will also be with William more in the summer!

We are truckin along. Portland is so pretty and full of flowers right now. With our neighbors we have planted about 20 tomato starters (all heirloom variety, yes we went a little tomato happy), artichoke, sugar snaps, lettuce, spinach, carrots, rhubarb, red and yellow chard, acorn squash, lots of strawberries, and beets! Plus we have our apple trees, fig tree, raspberry and blackberries, and hopefully our blueberry bush will come back! It is going to be a great harvest very soon.

Oh yes we can not forget Triceratops! We plan on renting a car for the day and driving to Sandy, OR to pick him up sometime around May 30th. The kids, especially B is so excited and wants to look at his picture all the time.