...and here we go!

Operation: Stay at home mom.  On Monday, January 4, I told my boss that I am going to stay at home with Jane.  What was I thinking???  This is going to cut our income basically in half.  I have grown accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle, complete with cable tv, and money for thing that I want.  Max has already cut off the cable, and I am still working!  What I am ever to do without The Biggest Loser?  And that's just one of the shows I am obsessed with!  That's not mentioning one of about 100 shows on the Food Network!  And Ellen?  Who am I going to get my crazy game ideas from? 

But ya know what?  It makes me realize a few things.  I don't have money to go to the movies, so I'll stay in, and spend quality time with the man I fell in love with.  We don't have the same grocery budget, so I am forced to cook from the pantry, instead of running out to get what I want.  We don't have cable, so I will read more... especially the Bible.  The TV thing I thought was going to be the hardest to live with - but I am already reading more... and reading to Jane.  The free time I have (wait... do stay at home moms have free time?!?) after Jane goes down is going to become my blogging time, my exercising time, my cutting coupon time, my me time.  My me and Jesus time.  My detox from the day time. 

It makes me realize that I don't need all this "stuff" to be happy.  I am joyful that I am able to stay at home with my baby.  I am able to use my time to get closer to the Lord, and in turn, raise Jane to love Jesus too.  I pray that she has the heart of a servant. 

So here we go... operation: stay at home mom.  I'll be working until at least the end of January... then it's home for this mama. 

Up next:  where do I go from here?

love wins,
rk