Two Weeks Notice

It's official!!!  I'm changing careers.  After April 29th, my new job occupation will be a stay-at-home mommy!!!  I'm so excited to be given this opportunity.  So excited and so scared.  Chris will never understand how much this means to me to be to be able to spend every day with Brady.  I feel like the luckiest and most selfish person in the world.  I decided that if I'm given the chance, I'm going to take it and try to make it work!!! 

We have been discussing this a lot in our household.  We both agreed that we still wanted to be able to enjoy life and not have to sacrifice everything for this.  If this wasn't the best decision, then I will look for another job.  So, Chris will still keep his golf membership.  I am still going on my annual Boji trip with my friends.  We will still be going to Vegas to visit Melissa and Gerry and baby Montiel.  However, there will be things we will have to adjust.  I'm up for the challenge of trying to spend less and still enjoy life.  So, if you are my friend and you ask me to do something / go somewhere that involves spending money, I will probably say no.  Don't take this personally, it's just that I would say no to anything to be able to spend every day with Brady!!!

I put my notice in yesterday at work and daycare.  It's so weird.  I've been at Principal for eight years.  My direct supervisor and coworkers have been very supportive.  New management is now ignoring me.  It's funny because someone else quit two weeks ago.  Are they starting to see a pattern?  My job has changed so drastically over the past eight years.  What I did when I first started is not even remotely close to what I am doing now.  I realize that in a sense, Principal was a good place to work.  I could come and go when I pleased as long as I got my 40 hours in.  They allowed me to volunteer for up to eight hours a year without having to use my vacation time.  I will miss my Friday morning breakfast runs to Brueggers or Mr. Fillet's with my coworker.  And still, after all these perks, I still want to walk out of there with both hands in the air flipping them off.  It's amazing how a culture can change when people revert back to high school mentality and poor management prevails.  It's all so negative.  It's not healthy - emotionally or physically.  I can't even begin to describe how this new management team has mentally broken us all down.  I would have wondered if it was just me, but I know that the other three people from our "old team" feel the same way.  I think the saying 'Thanks but No Thanks' would fit this situation.

So, onto the next chapter of our lives.......