Stay-at-Home Wife

To be honest keeping a whole house & yard clean and looking nice is almost a full time job! My dishwasher is still broken, even after 3 visits from the appliance guy, so I spend at least 30 minutes a day doing the dishes from the previous day. Add to that weeding, sweeping, vacuuming, dusting, grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, unpacking, cleaning, exercising at the WLFC, & crafting and Mark is home before I know it! Then when Saturday and Sunday roll around I don't have to be stuck in the house doing chores. I am enjoying being a stay-at-home wife! Of course I would still rather be a stay-at-home mom, but I will take what I can get for as long as I can get it! I haven't turned in any more resumes yet. I keep hoping (as always) that this month will be "the one." Then I convince myself that really...who wants to hire someone and then have them quit in 9-10 months? It's a dumb excuse, I know, but I can't lose hope yet. Since moving to Arkansas my stress levels have dropped (even though that really has nothing to do with the issue), I have lost weight going to the gym 5 mornings a week, I feel like a better wife when I have dinner ready for Mark when he gets home, it is sure easier to make friends when you can go to the "mommies club" activities, and I am happy now. I was never depressed working (well except for the year at Eno), but it sure is easier to be happy when I have enough time to get everything done! Don't count me out as being lazy though, as soon as my background check clears I can start substituting in the school system. Just because I am waiting doesn't mean I have to be anxiously waiting. ;-) I have actually had nightmares the last 2 nights about being in the classroom ... See teaching is stressful, even when I'm not actively doing it!

Now that my craft room/office is set up I have been spending most of my free time working in there. I still love my wall and the whole thing "just works." Sunday is Mark's napping day and I don't like the thought of taking naps just because, so instead I turned an old twin sheet and scrap fabric into a reusable grocery bag. I don't even know why we still had Mark's college sheets around, but we will get much more use out of the new product.

This week my mom asked me if I was set up to make the photography blocks I had told her about on the phone. I was and had actually already started/finished a few. As a result she hired me to make a wedding gift for one of Scott's (my oldest little brother) childhood friends. I LOVE the way it turned out and I hope the future Mr. & Mrs. Robby Rawson do to! Grandma Jennings: Don't tell Becky this is what her son is getting. It's a surprise.

Well that is plenty of rambling for one week. I'm off to play racquetball with Mark at the WLFC (Walmart Lifestyle Fitness Center - that place is a-maz-ing, and totally free since Mark is a corporate employee) wish me luck! I don't think I ever win against him. Granted it has been 3 years, so maybe Mark will have forgotten his fancy moves or something.