New Year & Changes

A new year usually brings about changes.  I have had many changes recently.  Our addition (bathroom, fireplace) and renovations (closets) are FINALLY finished after 7 long months!  It was so frustrating coming home to complete chaos during the process.  I got tired of having strange men in my home, especially at 7am on a Saturday.  I think our neighbors were about to kill us as well!

I changed jobs at the begining of the year.  I started a new job at Christus Schumpert's School-Based Health Center at Atkins Elementary!  I was not looking for another job when this opportunity presented itself.  I loved working with the people I had come to know as close friends at FMC and it was not a job that I was wanting to leave but I got into social work because I wanted to work with children.  I applied and interviewed with Schumpert hoping that I would get the job but also had faith that whatever was meant to happen would be.  It was so hard leaving FMC but so far I absolutely LOVE my job at Atkins!! 

My provisional year with Junior League is almost up and I have really enjoyed  it.  I have met some awesome women and I am so glad that I decided to join!  My placement has been playing BINGO with the kids at LSUHSC each month and I have had so much fun! 

Life tends to get busier and busier.  Being a full-time working mother is exhausting!  Trying to balance work, being a good mother and wife, time for exercise and time for myself is difficult.  I always feel like I am having to sacrifice one thing for another.  I am at the point in my life where my time away from home has to be worth it and had to make changes recently because some things just weren't worth it anymore.

I have lived in Shreveport for 8 years and have had a difficult time making friends.  I feel like some of the girls of Shreveport and I just do not have to same values.  I value people because of their character not because of ther social standing or yearly income. Some girls are still so caught up with high school and haven't moved beyond it even though it has been 10+ years.  I just don't understand this at all!  I am also the type of person that does not need to talk to someone on a daily basis or constantly do things together to prove we are best of friends.  I will talk to someone all day long in person but I hate talking on the phone.  Text messaging was the best invention ever!  Britt was my bff and when she moved I was utterly heartbroken.  She was the only person I felt I could really relate and talk to in Shreveport.  It isn't until recently that I have felt like I have that close of a friendship again and I am very thankful for it!

My daughter keeps changing and I just have mixed feelings about it!  I love seeing how she is growing up and developing as this little person but I just don't want her to grow up too fast or miss a moment!  She looks more and more like Dave but unfortunately inherited my talent of throwing a fit and being a brat!  It is really hard not to laugh when she is being bad because she is so darn cute!  It is wonderful to see how Dave and I have changed because of Anna.  I think we do better working together and just don't sweat the small stuff as much anymore.