Best husband

I just wanted to give a shout out to the best husband ever, Eddy! Okay, I whine and complain about him sometimes, but I can't imagine a better daddy which makes my job as a mommy much easier! A happy mommy really does make a happy family.

I've been on a hiatus but I'm back

I took a hiatus from blogging mostly because as Alex gets older, the amount of time I spend at the computer decreases in order to prevent any additional and unnecessary damage to our house. Also, the longer I spend at the computer, the longer Alex has to delete files from my hard drive by simply banging on my keyboard...strange how that happens!

Anywho, life is grand. I have a job lined up starting this August with a school district as a speech pathologist intern (I get paid and only a grand less than a fully certified speech pathologist so don't feel sorry for me...'intern' just a technical term.) I'll be a fully certified speech pathologist at the end of the school year in 2010 so I'm looking forward to that!

It's been almost a year since I graduated with my masters and have been staying home with Alex. I have absolutely enjoyed my time as a stay at home mom but I'm looking forward to finishing what I started and getting my CCC's. Once I start work, I'll be able to decide which is harder: being a working mommy or being a stay at home mommy. I think being a working mommy will be harder which is one of my biggest concerns with starting this summer.

So far, here's the biggest difference for me.

Stay at home mommy
Pros

• No commuter stress (this is huge being that I commuted 3 hours/day during rush hour to San Marcos and back for over 2 years)
• No guilt over leaving your child at a day care center or with another caregiver (also really huge for me)
• Saving money on clothes, eating out, gas
• Having time to do lots of fun things and bonding with your child...lots of time

Cons

• Always feeling the need to cook and maintain a clean house (I think this is self-inflicted guilt that I just can't let go)
• Always trying to pinch pennies again to avoid guilt over not working and not contributing financially to my house after having spent over $30k on my masters degree
• Never get to eat a meal in peace...this is a big one!!!

Working mommy
Pros

• Get to eat in peace
• Get to contribute to your family financially which equates to buying more non-essentials for everyone including me...YAY!
  
• Get to have a maid!!! YAY!!!

Cons

• Guilt & concern over leaving my child with another caregiver :-(
  
• Not enough time to cook what I would like as often
• Stress from work & commute (big yuck)
• Always on a time crunch (another yuck)
  

Only time will tell how this working mommy thing will work for me. Keep us in your prayers.