Saturday, October 31, 2009

Nov. 9th is coming quickly

So, "Maternity Leave" is almost up, if thats what you want to call it. I was super excited to take that last month off work, relax, get ready for the baby and spend some extra 1 on 1 time with Zach before Ethan was born. Then, came Ethan, and my life got so busy, and overwhelming with the lack of sleep, and the constant go go go, of a 2 1/2 year old. Oh boy, I can't imagine people who do this stuff with twins, or more! :) I would be run down, even more so than I already feel now.
It is a Fri. night and the rule usually is, I am on Baby Duty Sun-Thurs. since Josh goes to work, he obviously needs to get as much sleep as possible. During the week, I usually dont have any problems, throughout the night taking care of things. By the time Fri comes, I do like to have the break, and help. Tonight, is Fri. and it is 1:30am and I am awake, the baby is asleep in his swing next to me, and Josh is once again off duty, because he took the easy way out. The baby wouldn't stop fussing for him, which meant I couldn't sleep. So, I got up and took the baby to make sure he was taken care of. Fed, changed diaper, alittle medicine for his stomach, and off to sleep he went. If men only used their heads and figured out why they were fussing. Hmmm... he is a month old -- not too many options.... Is he wet? Hungry? Does his tummy hurt? Fever? If you answer YES to any of the following, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, and solve the issue of the baby fussing. :) Hahaha... instead Mom is up, and it is done now. The household is sleeping, EXCEPT for me. Whats wrong with this picture!? I guess I am just waiting for SOMEONE to wake up again, so whats the use in laying my head down. (This usually is how it goes, just when I lay down to go to sleep, I am up again.)
So, back to work I go... on Nov. 9th. I do not know how I will take care of "E" full time, work fulltime, and take care of my household fulltime. Josh will definately need to step up and start doing things as well. I am so excited for this new opportunity!! I always usually am pretty lucky as to what falls in my lap. Its nice having the expierence to pretty much walk on the floor, and get recognized for the expierence, job knowledge, and be offered new and different opportunities. So, my new job, I will be what is called a "Decisioner." My job will be to look at people's current mortgages, evaluate the situation, underwrite the loan basically to try to restructure it to make it more bearable for people to afford. Not a bad job. It makes GREAT $$ and gives me underwriting expierence which I dont have currently. Once I have that expierence down, I can pretty much more all around the company in any capacity. I LOVE IT --- And I love having connections where people and these jobs come to me... and I don't have to go looking for a job. If I ever needed to return to work full-time for any reason, I know I could get a job here anytime.
I am looking only at taking this position for around 3 months. I really don't want to work throughout the kids growing up, but somethings have come to light with Zach, and once he turns 3, I most likely will not be able to work. There is no way I can work my own schedule around a 3 year olds, which will be having his own schedule going on. Mom needs to be available to take him/pick him up. So, I am going to keep my sanity and work for a few months, cause my opportunity will be dwindling with the changes coming down the road with Zach.

I love change. I love things never staying the same, and being able to advance. Love learning new things, and becoming worth even more $, and I love the fact that I enjoy what I do,... and I am good at it....

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