Thursday, October 6, 2011

A Day in the Life of me!

I have seen this on other blogs and I thought it would be fun to look back one day and remember what I did on a day to day basis. Right now my two sweeties are 6 and 4. Caden started kindergarten this year and Paige started going to pre-k 3 days a week. I work full-time from home as the bookkeeper for a small credit union. What used to be an 8-5 job 5 days a week in an office I now try to squeeze in at home. It has not been easy. I am so blessed to have been able to make this move. In my heart of hearts I long to be a stay at home mom. But finances do not allow it. So 3years ago I changed jobs to work in Houston at this small credit union with the hope that it would lead to more flexible hours. What a ride it was. I went into the job knowing it would be a challenge but once I got in there I quickly learned they had major problems and their accounting was behind almost 3 years! It took me over a year to clean everything up. And then slowing I began to prepare to be able to work from home. This envolved a move to a branch office closer to home about a year ago. I was ready to get out of that place. After we were robbed at gunpoint and broken into after hours I was ready to get away from that bad part of town. Sometimes you can actually look back and see God's hand in what happens and I can say without a doubt he has been moving in my life as far as my job was concerned for the past 4 years. And now I am here. I work from home! It is hard to find balance but I am working on it. Here is an average week for me!

Monday- Wake up at 5:30 and get dressed. Kids get up about 6. Fix breakfast, fix lunches and get everyone dressed. I also post my morning work during this time. Out the door at 7:25. Take Caden to school, then Paige and I head to the gym from 8-8:45. Then take Paige to school. 9-1:30 I work, check e-mails, clean house some. 1:45 leave to pick up Paige, then Caden from school. 3-5 is snack time, homework time, rest time for the kids and I do my afternoon work. 5-7 is dinner and family time. 7-8 is bath, story, and devotion time and then kids go to bed at 8. If I have any energy left I clean or do laundry. I try to spend time with Jimmy during this time if he is not working.

Tuesday-Same as Monday but Paige is at home with me which makes working difficult. But I manage. And we have family dinners on Tuesdays from 5-7.

Wednesday-Same as Monday with Church from 6:30-7:30

Thursday-Same as Tuesday but it is my deep cleaning day. Floors get mopped, tubs and toilets get cleaned that sort of thing.

Friday- Same as Monday! Right now we have soccer practice @ 6. And I usually grocery shop on Fridays.

Saturday- Soccer games @ 8. Then the rest of the day is family time!

Sunday- Church, church and more church. I try to have everything done so I do not have to do any kind of "work" on Sundays. We eat out after church and just relax until evening church.

Well, that is my week right now. I am tired just looking at it!

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