2010 New Challenges and New Beginnings

So what's in store for 2010, well it's going to be lots of changes coming in 2010. First of all there's the new challenge of being a mother of 2, the new addition of Rebecca has brought many changes to our life, and after a month of having her home with us, I feel that I'm finally getting the hang of having 2 children in our house. The extra laundry, getting up at night, having 2 children to get ready instead of just one. Still doing all the cooking and cleaning and taking care of the house and Keith. It's a lot more work then I thought it would be, but I'm glad things are getting into routine.

The second change is that I've decided to be a permanent stay at home mom. Since I've been home since July I've realized that working and making my own money isn't as important as I thought it was. I thought I wanted to be independent and one of those successful and powerful women, but after the last job I had I was so thankful being at home that I didn't know what to do with myself. I never understand why I couldn't find a job that fulfilled me. I was so confused, but now I finally understand that the job that I was looking for was right here all along, at home, taking care of the people who mean the most to be, my husband and children. After discussing this with Keith, I realized that he to much preferred having me home too. So after a lot of thought we then had to figure out a way to make up some of the income that I will loose by not going back to work next November, so after a lot of thought over the last few months I've decided what I will be doing.

So that brings me to the third change. I'm going back to school, well I'll be taking an online course so that in a few months from now I can be a medical transcriptionist and work from home. The course it quite extensive and will take me almost a year to complete. Then after I've completed my course then I will be qualified to take and create reports for medical companies. I've very excited to take the first step into becoming a work from home mom again. I know it's going to be a lot of work to completed this course in the amount of time that I have, but I will be using my two beautiful children as my motivation to keep going, because not only do i not want to go back to work, but I don't want to have to put them into child care again.

The forth change is becoming a more active individual, after only a month since Rebecca was born I'm very anxious to get rid of this excess weight that I've put on in the last few years off and get back into shape. I know it's going to be hard to get on that treadmill every day and go for a run. But I don't want to feel overweight anymore, so today marks the second workout of the new year, and I hope to do one everyday.

So that's what new in 2010 for me and our family.

Kate