8 years ago when my son was born, I was blessed to become a stay at home mom. At last! This was my dream ever since I got married. The house ran beautifully, I had time for my hobbies, and I was much happier. There were times where I wished I was working just for the pure human socialization. But overall, everyone was happier that way. I loved it.
Then came July. Anyone in Shasta county knows what happened in July of 2019. The Carr fire. At the time, Daniel owned an internet company, Netsusa Communications. That fire wiped out a good 80-90% of his customer base, not to mention his sites!
Daniel had always had this unique talent of finding interesting jobs. So needless to say, he didn’t have as much experience in really anything that didn’t require a college degree, so him finding employment fast to cover our bills was difficult, epically since he needed to repair the damage done by the fire. There was really only one solution. I had to go back to work. I was only a stay at home mom for a little over a year, but my family needed this. So, I took a deep breath and followed a solution that was suggested by my mother in law. Preschool.
I had 90% of my experience in the work force indeed in child care of some sort, weather it be an after school program, watching over 200 kids on a playground, or teaching them how to make a craft from the 1850’s. So it was easy for me to get a job if there were kids involved. Was that what I truly wanted to do though? No.
I was excited to go back to college though, which I needed to do for this job. Thankfully they had this program where they would send you to school and help you get all the units you needed to stay employed with them. They made working and going to college extremely easy, and would even reimburse you anything extra you had to pay. All things considered it was great, and it allowed my husband to spend any money the business still made to build back up his sites and customer base.
Well, just like life likes to do we were faced with battles, such as cancer, and then the business just going under because of the cancer. So my husband left the internet business in search of something else. That’s when he got employed through a staffing agency. We thought for sure the broken arm was going to throw a kink in things once more, but once he was all healed up, his boss took him right back, and they’ve been busier than ever.
So, after extensively discussing it, we felt it was best for me to be a stay at home mom again. Will it be easy? No, its going to be a drastic change in our spending, but its possible, and it is what works best for our family. So I’ll still be selling Avon, and my Homesteading crafts, but I’ll be able to do it all full time, all while taking care of my family. My dream has finally come true.
