A New Job

I had been waiting tables part time for the past eight months. If you have never waited tables in your life I would encourage you to try it. You learn so much about yourself as a server. A few of the things that I learned while serving is  that I love people, I like to build those relationships with them, I like to be "of service" and I hate the restaurant industry. Lucky for me I got a job offer while I was waiting tables one day from a couple who own a medically supervised weight loss center (that I also happened to be going to at the time)....that I just couldn't pass up. It seemed like the perfect opportunity had just fallen into my lap. It is funny to me that once you become aware of God...I mean really aware of his presence in your life...you can see clearly how he is working and how one step leads you directly to the next. God is NEVER wrong and his timing is ALWAYS perfect. So two weeks ago I started my job as a Diet Consultant. I get to see patients...I get to build relationships with them....I get to be "of service" encouraging and being with them every step of their weight loss journey....and I don't have to step foot in a restaurant :-) Every day I go to work I am amazed that I get paid to do what I do. I love my new job and I am humbled and grateful for Gods perfect timing in every season of my life.

Extreme Makeover the Kid Edition

Here is a little riddle for ya to ponder....what is the direct opposite of cool, calm and collected.....give up?? Okay, okay it is......motherhood. Yesterday started off like any other day for us......and then I took my children to the dentist....and that is where I realized that quite simply my children are brats....I also realized that I may as well be a mute because the second I open my mouth their little ears turn completely off. So there I was at the dentist office knee deep in a nervous break down and I realized (it was apparently a day of realizations) that if something didn't change....and I mean drastically change....this mommy was going to lose it....go completely insane....and possibly quite possibly run far, far away. So today while I sent them off to their very last day at daycare I spent the day making chore charts, house rules and a consequence jar. The second that they stepped foot in the house this afternoon I sat them down and explained it all to them and how the household was going to work from now on. Now I realize (yet again) that stuff like this doesn't just magically change overnight (oh how I wish it did though) and I know that "consistency is the key" to things of this nature. I also know that I have 26 days until school starts back...so I am on a one mama mission to change these little brats that have taken over my house back into the lovely little (with any luck....listening) children that I gave birth to.....Here is to consistency and a whole heck of a lot of wishful thinking....and if all else fails I will be blogging from a beach in Mexico with an untraceable IP address :-)