Living the Dream

I finally feel like I can put the word out there, as I gave my boss the news last week.

On November 11th I will be leaving my current job to begin my new one. It has always been a dream of mine to be a stay at home mom and that dream is going to come true! I'm leaving about 10 days before my due date just to have a little last "me time" and to finish getting ready for Daniel's arrival. (Unless he decides to crash the party early!)

I can't even  begin to express how excited I am to do this! I've always done well with budgeting money and while I know that money is going to get tight and we're going to have to cutback on things, I can't imagine not being at home with him. I've had my moments of panic and wondering how we're going to do this, but somewhere deep down I know it can work.

There are so many kiddos in daycare...and if there weren't then I wouldn't have had the jobs that I've had in the past 10 years or so. I've always had the thought in mind though that I just couldn't put my child in daycare. Not if I could find a way to make it work. Jacob has been very supportive of me staying home and is happy that I am. Sure, I'd have the perk of being with my child still (especially that first year that he'd be in my room), but there are pros and cons to that. Then he'd move along to other rooms and I would have to accept or respect the way that other teachers felt was the right way to teach and discipline my child. To me, that's my job (well mine and Jacob's). I can't listen to my child call for me from another room without it breaking my heart. It's just not for me and the cons clearly outweighed the pros.

My mom stayed at home with us and I'm so glad that she did. I have lots of memories of doing things with her. We weren't poor by any means, but we wore a lot of 2nd hand clothes or "cheap" clothes and it never really bothered us. That's the way I plan to shop. Who cares if clothes have to come 2nd hand if it means being at home?

Eventually I may take a child in to babysit as a little bit of extra income, but to start with it'll just be Daniel and I!

I'm excited to be able to watch him learn and grow and know that I did a huge part to help shape him into what he becomes.