Hello fellow mommies (or soon to be mommies - maybe even fathers as well).... I just wanted to let you know a little about me before we begin our journey together.
I graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 2005 with my bachelor's degree in Special Education and taught for 7 consecutive years after graduating. My students were my "kiddos" and I always treated them like they were my own. I began teaching K-4 grades in Washington, IL and LOVED my job. I met my husband in 2007 and we married in 2009, moving me to another town and another school district. This time I taught junior high students, even coaching the dance team for one year!
Life was going great but my husband and I wanted to have children, especially since we were the last of our friends to have children. We knew it was time to start trying after our first year of marriage. After having no success on our own, we tried infertility medication but still no baby. We filled out paperwork for the adoption process and began waiting on a birth mother to choose us. After a short 6 months of waiting we got a phone call that a baby boy had been born in Tennessee and the parents had chosen us to be his parents! We left quickly and met our son who we immediately fell in love with!
I knew that I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom for at least the first few years of my kids lives until they started in school, but now this decision was harder than I expected! It was only the middle of the school year and I was hesitant to leave my students so quickly. But my son was more important to me so I decided to stay at home instead. I was still determined to finish my master's degree in Educational Administration which was over half completed. It seemed very doable with just one baby at home and supportive family who would watch him.
The day after my first Mother's Day I was surprised to learn that I was pregnant with a baby due the following January! I remember looking at my 4 month old son thinking how am I going to be able to handle two babies only 11 months apart!!! But either way this baby was coming! The pregnancy was a rough one (lots of nausea and dizziness) then a lot of back pain during the last trimester. But we survived it and my daughter arrived on my 30th birthday via c-section!
Even with two babies at home I walked through graduation in May 2013 and am in the process of finishing my last two classes this summer! After healing from my c-section I decided I was going to treat my stay-at-home job as a full time profession. I did some research just to see what my new new career was worth... Here is what I found!
Knowing I was worth that much I decided I needed to treat this as I would my other job! As a full time profession! My goal was to perfect things at home - organizing our house so we were efficient, going to playgroups, cooking delicious and nutritious meals, etc! I had the 1950s housewife in mind with a little modernizing! This is where the journey begins..... I wanted to share some of my organizing tips and tricks as well as mommy ideas that are working well with my children! Enjoy the journey with me! See you in the blogworld!
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