Day 2

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Day 2 allowed me to sleep in a bit, for on this day, Wednesdays, I work from home.  Easy peasy.  1st thing I'm grateful for today... the opportunity to work from home.  I've been a loyal employee for 16 years, and it's paid off.  For all the years I worked when I thought I wasn't being paid my worth, I'm glad I stayed... I'm glad I persisted with education and have now found myself able to do a job from home one day a week, take off another day each week and float into the office on just 3 days.  The years of the long commute were worth it.  I'm blessed with a boss who is encouraging and appreciative, who says he'd get upset if he heard I missed my child's important moment in life because of work.  He says children are important and not to miss anything.  I couldn't agree more.  But how nice it is to have your boss agree.  I'm really lucky.

Yet, it's one thing to have a great boss and an opportunity to work from home, and it's another to make it reality.  Reality comes when you have friends who will help make it happen.  The friends I refer to here go by another title too:  my co-workers.  One is a mom of three grown children.  She knows what it's like.  She helps make it happen for me.  She takes charge so I can be home.  I love her.  I appreciate her.  The other is a mom of two small children.  When my son is wanting to pull me away from work on my Wednesdays from home and trying my patience at moments, it's my co-worker friend of the two small children that I call and laugh with.  She gets it.  She helps make it happen for me too.  I couldn't have this awesome schedule without my two ladies. 

Yeah, back to sleeping in a little this morning... It was nice.  Woke to my usual "mom... mom".  Went to his room, "Good morning, sunshine!"  "Mornin', mom.  Let's go to the den" (his playroom).  And off we went...  to the coffee pot, to make breakfast.  Opened the fridge.  It's full.  #3 HEALTHY FOOD.  Amen.  How blessed are we who can open the fridge to healthy food to feed our families.  Cinnamon toast, fresh-picked strawberries, cantaloupe and scrambled eggs with veggies.  Yum.  Brain food.  Thank you God for my many blessings... a job to have the means to fill my fridge to feed my family and a job that allows me to be home with my family.  Amen.