Changes

This week marks the start of many new changes going on in our family.  All good changes.  I am going into my last week with my current company that I have been with the past year.  I was offered a job with a company that I would be a fool not to go work for.  It is back in the spine/neuro world, and I am a total geek for the spine stuff.  I wasn't looking for a job, but the job found me-so who am I to say no?!?  It will be in FW only (NO TRAVEL)-HALLELUJAH!!!!

I remember running through all of the airports on a weekly basis when E was just months old with my red cooler in hand, toting around my milk I had just pumped, and having many curious people ask what on earth was in the cooler.  I normally travel in scrubs for simplicity sake, and it is only normal for a person to think that I was carrying an organ or something.  (I don't know why they would think I would be on a commercial flight for that, but I can still see how they would connect the dots.)  Here is how the conversation would normally go with another passenger (normally a male passenger no less):

Stranger:  What is in your cooler?

Me:  A brain.

Stranger:  Really?

Me:  No. (Long Pause) But I don't think you want to know.

Stranger:  I really think I do, what is in there?

Me:  Breast Milk.  I am a working mom that has a baby back in FW waiting for me.

Stranger:  Oh.  (Total look of awkwardness and grossness on their face.)  I think I liked the idea of a brain more.

Me:  You can't say I didn't warn you.  :)

My new schedule will be incredibly busy, and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.  I feel blessed that Rob is totally supportive of this, and he knows that this new job means that he will have to be more flexible with his schedule as I figure mine out.  (FYI:  This news was one of the good phone calls I got a few weeks back.)

The next change going on in our house is our next home project that hopefully will be complete by this weekend.  E will be moving up to his new room.  I am that mom that has kept her kid in his crib far longer than I should have.  E loves his crib, and he doesn't climb out-so my thought thus far has been to leave well enough alone.  He sleeps all night in that crib, and my fear is that he will turn into a horrid sleeper when we transition him up.  With that said, he is way to big for it, and sadly it is time for him to move to his big boy room.

We have always affectionately called this room the "bug room."  When you reach the top of the stairs there is a cute little lady bug painted on the door, and you can see the hand paintings along the wall.  It is a darling room, but definitely painted for a little girl.  I have envisioned a "camping theme" for E's new room.  Picture "old school boy scouts" mixed with "air stream campers."  I have been collecting numerous items over the past few month, and I really hope that it all looks like it is supposed to after we are done.

The visions in my head are always grander than my budget and my decorating skills, but I am excited to get my hands on this room.  I will post the after pictures in the next week or so when it is all done!

Here are the before: