Season's of Life

Summer: The Hot Seat

So it is Thursday night and I have been on my way to unemployment for 96 hours. Monday, I finally gained the strength to do what I had been talking about for months: quit my job.
I don't mean, quit as in, I hated my job and never wanted to go back. I mean, quit my job, in a "we can't afford this daycare" anymore. While I LOVE the daycare that B & L go to, they are a Christian daycare/ preschool with a super awesome staff, I was basically working to pay daycare and buy a few groceries each month.
With me stating home, I am planning on watching a few kids, enjoying my kids, and being a better wife. There are so many areas that I need to improve on, but I can't do them while being stressed out over money.

Fall: A Period of Cooling Off

The next step, after we get back from a few days of a much needed vacation, will be finding those kids and getting into the swing of things. B will be starting 3 year old preschool at the end of August and L is 15 months old today! He is moving all of the place a hopefully just a few weeks from walking. I am actually going to get to see his first steps this way. I am ready to be that kind of mom.
This all came to me in sort of a God moment. Never in my life have I considered being a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM). So for me to undergo this renovation of life, God had to be the center of it all.
Well, here I am God! Take me, mold me, use me...

So I will keep you posted on the unraveling of the days to come and in the mean time, say a little prayer for me, but most of all the boys. After all, this will be a huge change for them as well.

Hot & Humid in MO,
MommyShelle C

The Waiting Place - A Book Review

I just had the pleasure of reading “The Waiting Place” by Eileen Button. It is a charming little collection of essays. Each essay is about a waiting place in life. Whether or not she chose to laugh, cry or both in the situation really told something about her character. Many of life’s waiting places are relayed in this book in a real and meaningful way.

Eileen Button had a way of going from life as a child waiting on Grandpa to life as a minister’s wife and liking the two together to show how life may take you through a journey you could have never imagined but one that you wouldn’t trade for the world.  

While talking about her husband’s job as a Methodist minister, she talks about ‘waiting’ for him to come home. Not home in the physical sense, but in mental sense that he is detached from her and the kids while dealing with all of the stresses that come with being a minister.

While talking about waiting for her son to cry, she expresses the great heart ache & sorrow that a stay in the NICU can put on your heart. She then transitions her waiting into the joy that comes from the simple mundane things that the rest of us take for granted; a crying baby.

Overall, I really enjoyed the book and believe anyone could find a connection to or relate to the book and essays in some way.

Please note: I received this book free from the publisher through BookSneeze through their bloggers book review program. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.