Hip, Hip, Hooray!!

I've been slacking with this blog for the past couple of weeks, with good reason. We were in Florida, as per the previous post, and this week I was busy with my Mom and sisters visiting and then our Labor day bash. So. Good morning. I have a few moments before our tyke wakes from his nap.

The past few months have been stressful, as I have made abundantly clear. Hopefully everyone has pitied me profusely. The combination of school, work, motherhood, and being a person is too much for me (even though I am Super Woman). One day, I met Dave's glance over a mound of abandoned laundry on our unmade bed. He was trying to put Haven to sleep and I was changing from work clothes to school clothes. I said, "I can't do this anymore. This is way too much." Realizing my limitations was important, I think.

After a series of blessings -- I don't often use that word, the overuse of it has made it kind of cheesy, but if a blessing is a gift that could only have come from God, then that is precisely what I'm talking about -- I am able to quit my job. I gave my notice last week and will wrap up my 4-year tenure on September 28. It's quite surreal. I am going to be home during the day with Haven while I finish graduate school this year - this is what I prayed for the day I went back to work after my maternity leave. It was one of those, "Um ... God? If I could do anything it would be ... but I'm flexible." prayers. Along came 4 subsequent months of doing everything half as well as I wanted to. Then, finally, I realized something had to change. It's when I changed my prayer to "God, please, I can't take it anymore..." things changed. Sometimes I think a little faith is important.

I'm so excited. I'm looking forward to this year. I look forward to thriving at my internship with time to study and research. I look forward to having time to play with Haven. I look forward to not being at my max-stress-level every time I'm with Dave. This will be good.