So it's Memorial Day. Which means that my kids get super excited because they get to watch the parade with firetrucks and candy!
So we cart out our chairs, water bottles and sippy cups to the curb out in front of our house. We waited until the time the parade was supposed to start, because in our town, they never start on time. We learned that the hard way last year. Even still we were waiting awhile.
But, a man came up and was talking to us. It wasn't a total stranger. We knew him from Freecycle (his granddaughter is now using a bunch of Landon's baby equipment) and he's part of the Fire Dept, so the kids recognized him from school.
He asked my boys (Sweet Nut and Cute Boy...Chunk was too busy with his lollipop and Spawn is at the X's for the weekend) if they knew why there was a parade today. They said, Yep, it's Memorial Day. I'm sure he thought that they were just parroting me saying it. He asked them if they knew what Memorial Day meant and Cute Boy said that It's the day that we spend time with our families remembering the soldiers who died. Sweet Nut went even farther and said that we need to pray for all the soldiers who are fighting now and for the families of the ones who have died. The man asked if they knew anyone who was a soldier and Sweet Nut said yes, we know some who are soldiers now and that Grandpa(my grandpa-the boys call my dad Pa) was a soldier. The man asked if he knew if Grandpa was ever in a war and Sweet Nut said yes, he was in the Army Air Force in WWII and that my uncle was in the Navy in Vietnam. The man told him that it was great that he knew that and that he hoped that when the boys got bigger they would never have to go to war and Sweet Nut said, it's OK. I'm going to be a soldier because I want to be like Grandpa and be a pilot. The man said he can do that without being a soldier, and Sweet Nut said, but regular pilots only fly regular planes. I want to fly planes and protect the world from bad guys.
Who knew my kids actually pay attention when we talk about things that go on. And I'm super impressed that Sweet Nut remembered about Grandpa and my uncle, and what they did. He learned about it for a project over a year and a half ago. I guess I should prepare for him going into the armed forces now, because it's not the first time he's mentioned it.
The one thing that made me sad was that when the parade was done, both the boys noted that there were not a lot of people there, that more people were there for the carnival parade. And then my ever so wise goobers said "Mommy, more people should come to this parade. It's shorter but at least the soldiers can look down from heaven and see that we still care."
Yes, boys, you are right. All the soldiers, on earth and in heaven should know that we care.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
What a crazy few months.
Sorry for the blog silence. We've had a rough few months, but I think we're on the other side of it now...at least I hope so!
A few quick updates:
Spawn is uber excited for middle school. He's signed up to play the viola in the orchestra and will be signing up for football next week. We're still working on some of the areas he struggles in at home, but all in all, this has been a successful year. We've also dealt with a first crush and the first letdown when she became someone else's 'girlfriend'. He's working his way towards earning being allowed to walk/ride his bike to school for the rest of the year, so that's been something good.
Sweet Nut is getting to the age where school isn't 'fun' anymore. He's a smart kid, but hates to write, so that's becoming a problem. We're working on writing at home and on penmanship, since he tends have a lot of assignments that need to be redone because they are sloppy. Content wise, he's a great writer. But it's getting him to actually write that is the problem. He just had a pretty bad bout of some form of the coxsackie virus. He had a throat full of blisters making talking and eating pretty painful. Not fun.
Cute Boy is doing ok in K. He's got a few areas he's struggling in as well, so we are working on that at home. Sight words are giving him the same trouble that letters were, he's having a hard time remembering them. He's just taken the training wheels off his bike so he's been working on that as well, and is pretty good, but has taken a few good spills. Also he made a 'greenhouse' at school and has 2 bean plants he's growing, and hopes to transfer to the big garden.
Chunk is doing great. He loves daycare, even though he won't talk there. At home he's getting more words and is putting words together. It's our 3rd time around with a late talker, so I'm not too worried yet.
Hmm...what else. Oh, we are working on a garden this year. My grandpa always had one growing up and nothing tastes as good as when it comes out of the garden. So we're working on getting a corner of the backyard tilled and cleaned up. We're going to cheat this year and buy plants, but I think the goobers and I might try to make a small greenhouse box like my grandpa used to for next year. We don't really have the space to start plants indoors, so I figure buying them is the next best option. The lilacs are blooming, so we'll start planting over the next few weeks. Spawn did have a few seed packets that he got from his dad that he planted a few weeks ago, so we'll see how they do.
Also, I was approached by Reading Eggs to try out 2 of their apps and do a review and giveaway, so we're playing with that and the review will be coming soon! I'm so excited!
I hope everyone has a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day!
A few quick updates:
Spawn is uber excited for middle school. He's signed up to play the viola in the orchestra and will be signing up for football next week. We're still working on some of the areas he struggles in at home, but all in all, this has been a successful year. We've also dealt with a first crush and the first letdown when she became someone else's 'girlfriend'. He's working his way towards earning being allowed to walk/ride his bike to school for the rest of the year, so that's been something good.
Sweet Nut is getting to the age where school isn't 'fun' anymore. He's a smart kid, but hates to write, so that's becoming a problem. We're working on writing at home and on penmanship, since he tends have a lot of assignments that need to be redone because they are sloppy. Content wise, he's a great writer. But it's getting him to actually write that is the problem. He just had a pretty bad bout of some form of the coxsackie virus. He had a throat full of blisters making talking and eating pretty painful. Not fun.
Cute Boy is doing ok in K. He's got a few areas he's struggling in as well, so we are working on that at home. Sight words are giving him the same trouble that letters were, he's having a hard time remembering them. He's just taken the training wheels off his bike so he's been working on that as well, and is pretty good, but has taken a few good spills. Also he made a 'greenhouse' at school and has 2 bean plants he's growing, and hopes to transfer to the big garden.
Chunk is doing great. He loves daycare, even though he won't talk there. At home he's getting more words and is putting words together. It's our 3rd time around with a late talker, so I'm not too worried yet.
Hmm...what else. Oh, we are working on a garden this year. My grandpa always had one growing up and nothing tastes as good as when it comes out of the garden. So we're working on getting a corner of the backyard tilled and cleaned up. We're going to cheat this year and buy plants, but I think the goobers and I might try to make a small greenhouse box like my grandpa used to for next year. We don't really have the space to start plants indoors, so I figure buying them is the next best option. The lilacs are blooming, so we'll start planting over the next few weeks. Spawn did have a few seed packets that he got from his dad that he planted a few weeks ago, so we'll see how they do.
Also, I was approached by Reading Eggs to try out 2 of their apps and do a review and giveaway, so we're playing with that and the review will be coming soon! I'm so excited!
I hope everyone has a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
{Pretty, happy, funny, real}
It's ba-a-ck.
I've done this once...maybe twice. But I love reading them. And in my quest to document the Goobers because they aren't getting younger, I'm going to try it up each week. Try. No promises. Feel free to yell at me if I miss though :D
So the idea is to post a picture of a pretty, a happy, a funny and a real. Simple right? It's started by the ladies over at Like Mother, Like Daughter. Click the button above if you haven't read their blog before. Pretty interesting stuff over there
Anyways, lets see here...
~Pretty~
Homemade chili. Homemade corn bread. Homemade guacamole. Yum.
~Happy~
My view last night. Homemade cakes mixed, baked and decorated by Goobers, who insisted on candles, singing and Are you 1... 30 has arrived, and I couldn't be happier :D
~Funny~
I have a few funnies this week. The first two are of my rock stars after my birthday concert they put on in our living room...
And this I found on my phone when uploading pictures tonight. Pretty common for there to be surprises on my camara. So here's Spawn.
~Real~
This was after Kindergarten Bedtime Stories. The kindy classes do it every January, go in after dinner in your pj's, with your blanket and stuffed animal and they have about a half hour of stories read by their teacher. So far all of the Goobers have had this awesome kindy teacher, we're hoping she'll still be there in 3 years when Chunk starts.
So that's my pretty, happy, funny real this week. What's yours?
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Routines...they really do work!
So, sometimes with Chunk I feel like a new mom all over again. I suppose I can say that with all of my Goobers when they do something new.
You would think though after being a mom for 10 years, I would have gotten the memo about sleep routines sooner.
Yeaaaaaah.
Just got it last week.
Well, let me correct that. I got it way back when. But when you work in a restaurant or in retail, you don't exactly have 'routine' hours. So it was hard.
Being home almost all of the time now though let me finally give it a shot, so we did last week.
We started with Chunk since he is the littlest. Backtracking a bit here, we took him out of the crib and into a pack n play because the big kids decided they were going to climb into the crib and play with him and bent one of the metal things that allows you to set the height of the mattress. Then when he was super sick we moved him into bed with us because we were using a nebulizer on a very strict schedule, including through the night , and it was just easier to do it when he was sleeping then wake him up for it. We tried to go back to the crib when he got better and we got the replacement piece, but he would scream. I've let my kids cry it out at bedtime before but this kid will scream for hours. Seriously. So we were stuck with him in bed.
Then he started daycare in September. And after a few days, he would go down for naps in the pack n play there. So I had the brilliant idea last week to pull out the pack n play at naptime and give it a shot. He whined for a few minutes but took his nap. Same at bedtime. Yay! Now he goes down for his nap no problems...and as long as we keep the big kids downstairs, bedtime is a breeze for him too.
Even The Chef yesterday was surprised that when they put Cute Boy on the bus that Chunk came home and laid down on the couch and took a nap. I was at a meeting and told him the routine, but you know how men and listening skills can be sometimes.
So since I was excited about the success with Chunk, I moved on to the big kids. Sweet Nut wasn't much of a problem, as long as no one bugs him, he's always been the best sleeper of the 3...but he can't have anyone awake near him or he turns into a clown. Cute Boy surprisingly has gotten better. It still takes him awhile to go to sleep, but he does. Spawn still takes for.ever.
The biggest thing with them is that since they all share a room, we have to wait until one is asleep before sending spin the next. So bedtime takes awhile. The plan is one day to at least have 3 bedrooms, one for us, and then split the boys between 2 rooms so we can send the little ones at the same time and once they are asleep, send the big ones. Unfortunately, that is probably going to take us moving out of the area, or hitting lotto. Rent is just crazy expensive here. One day though, it gives us something to work towards.
You would think though after being a mom for 10 years, I would have gotten the memo about sleep routines sooner.
Yeaaaaaah.
Just got it last week.
Well, let me correct that. I got it way back when. But when you work in a restaurant or in retail, you don't exactly have 'routine' hours. So it was hard.
Being home almost all of the time now though let me finally give it a shot, so we did last week.
We started with Chunk since he is the littlest. Backtracking a bit here, we took him out of the crib and into a pack n play because the big kids decided they were going to climb into the crib and play with him and bent one of the metal things that allows you to set the height of the mattress. Then when he was super sick we moved him into bed with us because we were using a nebulizer on a very strict schedule, including through the night , and it was just easier to do it when he was sleeping then wake him up for it. We tried to go back to the crib when he got better and we got the replacement piece, but he would scream. I've let my kids cry it out at bedtime before but this kid will scream for hours. Seriously. So we were stuck with him in bed.
Then he started daycare in September. And after a few days, he would go down for naps in the pack n play there. So I had the brilliant idea last week to pull out the pack n play at naptime and give it a shot. He whined for a few minutes but took his nap. Same at bedtime. Yay! Now he goes down for his nap no problems...and as long as we keep the big kids downstairs, bedtime is a breeze for him too.
Even The Chef yesterday was surprised that when they put Cute Boy on the bus that Chunk came home and laid down on the couch and took a nap. I was at a meeting and told him the routine, but you know how men and listening skills can be sometimes.
So since I was excited about the success with Chunk, I moved on to the big kids. Sweet Nut wasn't much of a problem, as long as no one bugs him, he's always been the best sleeper of the 3...but he can't have anyone awake near him or he turns into a clown. Cute Boy surprisingly has gotten better. It still takes him awhile to go to sleep, but he does. Spawn still takes for.ever.
The biggest thing with them is that since they all share a room, we have to wait until one is asleep before sending spin the next. So bedtime takes awhile. The plan is one day to at least have 3 bedrooms, one for us, and then split the boys between 2 rooms so we can send the little ones at the same time and once they are asleep, send the big ones. Unfortunately, that is probably going to take us moving out of the area, or hitting lotto. Rent is just crazy expensive here. One day though, it gives us something to work towards.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
They work hard for their money...
So hard for their money.
Ok. I'll stop singing now.
Anyways, we're 3 weeks into our new allowance/chore system and its going surprisingly well!
I mentioned in my last post that we've been trying to figure out the whole chore mystery for years.
Thanks to Pinterest, I found a lot of different systems that people we using. But none of them really worked for us. Then I had the brilliant idea to combine a little of this with a little of that and lo and behold, we got a keeper.
The boys like it because they aren't stuck doing the same old thing all the time and I like it because I'm not nagging...as much.
So let me walk you through a Sunday afternoon at our house.
After lunch we pull these out:
That's our chore box and our family bank binder.
They take turns pulling chores. Each of them gets 5. And the chores a mix of things that have to be done every day and once or twice a week.
We jot down who has what...and every once in awhile there's a trade worked out between brothers. Then we pull their log charts. These are up on the fridge and they get marked each day when something is done. We add up what they earned- daily chores are worth 25 cents. Weekly chores are worth 50 cents. We add them up and they write down what they earned in their bank register as chore payout.
Then they either work with Mom using the calculator to figure out what 20% is, or Spawn gets a piece of paper and does the multiplication by hand. This money goes into their savings. They can't touch their savings. (Eventually when they get enough saved they'll go with MaMa (my mom) to open a savings account.). The rest is theirs to save or spend. Right now we have them convinced to save for our Disney trip.
Starting tomorrow, we're getting rid of the check sheets and making it electronic. I found today (thanks Pinterest!) a website called MyJobChart.com. We played with it today and it is pretty awesome!
You set up your account and then add your kids and assign them jobs. They earn points rather than money (each point is equal to 1 cent) and you can set what the jobs are worth. You can set rewards they can earn, there are general ones and they also link to Amazon, so you can put a specific toy or something (right now theirs are filled with skylanders.)
After the kids earn their points they go to their store where they can organize their points to savings, organizations to give to and rewards. Once they feel they have enough points in one of those sections, they can 'spend' it, which emails you to let you know what they want, so you can either put it in the bank, donate, or buy it.
So far the boys like it, I figured they would, because its electronic. We have it linked on the iPad so they can just click and open it. Once they do that they click their picture and enter their password to get into their account.
So thats's how we have chores worked out.
Allowance is a whole different animal. We started this month giving them a dollar for their age, so for example, Spawn got $10. Again, they have to save 20% of that. We're actually going to start tweaking this too this coming month. A friend of mine does this with her boys and we're going to give it a shot as well. The goal is to correct behavior and have them behave, but also to make you look for the good and compliment the positive. There's a mason jar for each kid and a jar of marbles/stones. Each time they get caught doing something good, you compliment them and add a stone to their jar. At the end of the month a full jar is worth $10. They can't lose stones, because remember, you are trying to be positive. She says since they started it she's noticed a change, so I'm anxious to see if it works on Goobers as well.
So far so good.
Just a note. Although I talked a lot about MyJobChart.com, they don't know who I am or that I wrote this. I just found it and thought it was neat and wanted to share. Best part is that it's free...well, the site is free...the kids will eventually expect money :)
Ok. I'll stop singing now.
Anyways, we're 3 weeks into our new allowance/chore system and its going surprisingly well!
I mentioned in my last post that we've been trying to figure out the whole chore mystery for years.
Thanks to Pinterest, I found a lot of different systems that people we using. But none of them really worked for us. Then I had the brilliant idea to combine a little of this with a little of that and lo and behold, we got a keeper.
The boys like it because they aren't stuck doing the same old thing all the time and I like it because I'm not nagging...as much.
So let me walk you through a Sunday afternoon at our house.
After lunch we pull these out:
That's our chore box and our family bank binder.
They take turns pulling chores. Each of them gets 5. And the chores a mix of things that have to be done every day and once or twice a week.
We jot down who has what...and every once in awhile there's a trade worked out between brothers. Then we pull their log charts. These are up on the fridge and they get marked each day when something is done. We add up what they earned- daily chores are worth 25 cents. Weekly chores are worth 50 cents. We add them up and they write down what they earned in their bank register as chore payout.
Then they either work with Mom using the calculator to figure out what 20% is, or Spawn gets a piece of paper and does the multiplication by hand. This money goes into their savings. They can't touch their savings. (Eventually when they get enough saved they'll go with MaMa (my mom) to open a savings account.). The rest is theirs to save or spend. Right now we have them convinced to save for our Disney trip.
Starting tomorrow, we're getting rid of the check sheets and making it electronic. I found today (thanks Pinterest!) a website called MyJobChart.com. We played with it today and it is pretty awesome!
You set up your account and then add your kids and assign them jobs. They earn points rather than money (each point is equal to 1 cent) and you can set what the jobs are worth. You can set rewards they can earn, there are general ones and they also link to Amazon, so you can put a specific toy or something (right now theirs are filled with skylanders.)
After the kids earn their points they go to their store where they can organize their points to savings, organizations to give to and rewards. Once they feel they have enough points in one of those sections, they can 'spend' it, which emails you to let you know what they want, so you can either put it in the bank, donate, or buy it.
So far the boys like it, I figured they would, because its electronic. We have it linked on the iPad so they can just click and open it. Once they do that they click their picture and enter their password to get into their account.
So thats's how we have chores worked out.
Allowance is a whole different animal. We started this month giving them a dollar for their age, so for example, Spawn got $10. Again, they have to save 20% of that. We're actually going to start tweaking this too this coming month. A friend of mine does this with her boys and we're going to give it a shot as well. The goal is to correct behavior and have them behave, but also to make you look for the good and compliment the positive. There's a mason jar for each kid and a jar of marbles/stones. Each time they get caught doing something good, you compliment them and add a stone to their jar. At the end of the month a full jar is worth $10. They can't lose stones, because remember, you are trying to be positive. She says since they started it she's noticed a change, so I'm anxious to see if it works on Goobers as well.
So far so good.
Just a note. Although I talked a lot about MyJobChart.com, they don't know who I am or that I wrote this. I just found it and thought it was neat and wanted to share. Best part is that it's free...well, the site is free...the kids will eventually expect money :)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Cha-cha-cha-changes.
So here we are, the beginning of another New Year...and we're making lots of changes!
First, if you read the last post you know we're working on building our savings. It's been a rough few weeks but the budget is in place and we're starting to use it.
Second is food wise. I desperately need to lose weight as I've watched it get closer and closer to a super scary number. One day I'll share but not yet. Spawn, Sweet Nut and The Chef can stand to shed some pounds as well. I decided to dive in head first with meal planning. This is our first full week and so far so good. I made the menu on Saturday and went shopping Sunday. The plan is to make at least a weeks worth of menus (ideally I'd like to do the whole month, but I have to work up to that) and to shopping once a week. There are times where I'm in the grocery store once a day or more, and we start buying junk food we don't need just because its there. By forcing myself to only go once a week, I'm hoping it helps keep the junk food out. We're also trying some new recipes and we're going to be adding some sort of salad or raw veggie platter to the menu every day starting next week.
Our other big change is our new chore payout/allowance system. I've been looking for a new system for awhile and I've taken some components of what I've read and made up one that so far works for us. Each Sunday the big 3 draw 5 chores out of a box. Those are their chores for the week. We list them on the fridge next to their check sheets. Each Sunday before we draw new chores we have chore payout. Then on the first Sunday of the month, we give them their allowance...$1 for each year they have been alive. We're on our second week and its going pretty well.
And one of the big reasons for our new system is that we are planning to head down to the House of Mouse at the end of April. Yep, we're heading down for a week at Disney. So we've told the boys that they can certainly spend the money now, we strongly recommend to save it for Disney, because we are not giving them money. And it's been working.
So that's what's been going on around here. Oh and Spawn hit the big ole 10!!! Chunk was getting over the flu so we just needed the wheelchair.
Hope the New Year is treating you well so far...what resolutions or changes are happening with you?
First, if you read the last post you know we're working on building our savings. It's been a rough few weeks but the budget is in place and we're starting to use it.
Second is food wise. I desperately need to lose weight as I've watched it get closer and closer to a super scary number. One day I'll share but not yet. Spawn, Sweet Nut and The Chef can stand to shed some pounds as well. I decided to dive in head first with meal planning. This is our first full week and so far so good. I made the menu on Saturday and went shopping Sunday. The plan is to make at least a weeks worth of menus (ideally I'd like to do the whole month, but I have to work up to that) and to shopping once a week. There are times where I'm in the grocery store once a day or more, and we start buying junk food we don't need just because its there. By forcing myself to only go once a week, I'm hoping it helps keep the junk food out. We're also trying some new recipes and we're going to be adding some sort of salad or raw veggie platter to the menu every day starting next week.
Our other big change is our new chore payout/allowance system. I've been looking for a new system for awhile and I've taken some components of what I've read and made up one that so far works for us. Each Sunday the big 3 draw 5 chores out of a box. Those are their chores for the week. We list them on the fridge next to their check sheets. Each Sunday before we draw new chores we have chore payout. Then on the first Sunday of the month, we give them their allowance...$1 for each year they have been alive. We're on our second week and its going pretty well.
And one of the big reasons for our new system is that we are planning to head down to the House of Mouse at the end of April. Yep, we're heading down for a week at Disney. So we've told the boys that they can certainly spend the money now, we strongly recommend to save it for Disney, because we are not giving them money. And it's been working.
So that's what's been going on around here. Oh and Spawn hit the big ole 10!!! Chunk was getting over the flu so we just needed the wheelchair.
Hope the New Year is treating you well so far...what resolutions or changes are happening with you?
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Random ramblings
I've been thinking a lot. Which could be dangerous, LOL.
The Chef and I are working on making an setting a budget for the New Year. We're in the process of reading and learning Dave Ramsey's method. We know quite a few people that have had success with that. And we're to the point where we should be getting rid of most of our debt in the next few months, so we figured it would be a good time to start.
In looking at and crunching the numbers the looming question has been if I should go back to work full time. I haven't technically been full time since Chunk was born, even though for almost a year I was working 2 part time jobs.
So we plate with and crunched the numbers. If I go back full time, right now, the 2 biggest goobers would have to go to before school care 3 days a week, and after school care once a week. Plus Cute Boy would need daycare in the mornings 3 days a week (he's in afternoon kindergarten) and after school one day a week...and Chunk would be full time in daycare. We priced it out using our options of in school before and after school for the big boys and our sitter and our daycare, and no matter how we crunch it, I'll need a very very well paying full time job.
If I stay home, it saves us the money for child care. Yes, Chunk goes 3 days a week to daycare, but he LOVES it there and he's doing great. Plus it allows me to be able to go into school and help a lot which the Goobers love. (And for the most part works out to be when the baby is at daycare!). I actually like being home (surprisingly!) and like that we have family dinners 4x a week, and that even the other 3 nights the boys and I have time together (chef works until 8pm 3 nights a week)
When we worked out the numbers, no matter what way we did it, for the most part we just get by. If I'm working, most of that money goes to childcare.
So where does that leave me? I'm going to invest more time in developing my Thirty One business. I love the company and the products, and they spoil their consultants! And it allows me to make my own schedule. I'm also doing some part time stuff behind the scenes at the repair shop. Which is good because I love the shop, and miss it sometimes!
And the upside to all of this, which I realized today as I sit here with a Chunk who didn't go to daycare because he pulled an all nighter last night? I get to be here for my kids. I loved working full time, but for me, at this point right now, even though they drive me insane, I'm right where I want to be.
The Chef and I are working on making an setting a budget for the New Year. We're in the process of reading and learning Dave Ramsey's method. We know quite a few people that have had success with that. And we're to the point where we should be getting rid of most of our debt in the next few months, so we figured it would be a good time to start.
In looking at and crunching the numbers the looming question has been if I should go back to work full time. I haven't technically been full time since Chunk was born, even though for almost a year I was working 2 part time jobs.
So we plate with and crunched the numbers. If I go back full time, right now, the 2 biggest goobers would have to go to before school care 3 days a week, and after school care once a week. Plus Cute Boy would need daycare in the mornings 3 days a week (he's in afternoon kindergarten) and after school one day a week...and Chunk would be full time in daycare. We priced it out using our options of in school before and after school for the big boys and our sitter and our daycare, and no matter how we crunch it, I'll need a very very well paying full time job.
If I stay home, it saves us the money for child care. Yes, Chunk goes 3 days a week to daycare, but he LOVES it there and he's doing great. Plus it allows me to be able to go into school and help a lot which the Goobers love. (And for the most part works out to be when the baby is at daycare!). I actually like being home (surprisingly!) and like that we have family dinners 4x a week, and that even the other 3 nights the boys and I have time together (chef works until 8pm 3 nights a week)
When we worked out the numbers, no matter what way we did it, for the most part we just get by. If I'm working, most of that money goes to childcare.
So where does that leave me? I'm going to invest more time in developing my Thirty One business. I love the company and the products, and they spoil their consultants! And it allows me to make my own schedule. I'm also doing some part time stuff behind the scenes at the repair shop. Which is good because I love the shop, and miss it sometimes!
And the upside to all of this, which I realized today as I sit here with a Chunk who didn't go to daycare because he pulled an all nighter last night? I get to be here for my kids. I loved working full time, but for me, at this point right now, even though they drive me insane, I'm right where I want to be.
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