Quick Update

Well I no longer think we used to be busy. Life is crazy now. It's amazing to me how working just a few client hours a week can take up so much freaking time!

I have clients now. My very own :) Just a few. I haven't actually met them yet, but we have our first sessions set up for this week. I have five hours of direct client contact set up for this week, but, of course, none of it is anywhere close in time to the rest of it. I have to be at my office for 4 blocks of time and none of them are closer than 8 hours apart. And my office is 35 minutes away without traffic. Not fantastic planning I suppose, although much of it is based off of what times the clients are available. It will be an adjustment. Plus, at least for right now, I'm finding that for every client hour, I spend about two to three hours doing research and planning and other stuff. Hitting my minimum of ten hours a week is not difficult.

We've also been reevaluating the two of us working. The original plan was for Rob to quit as soon as my income could replace his (a few years down the road). That plan is now shot to heck because with my heart condition, no private insurance on the face of the planet will ever cover me. On the plus side, at least I developed this now, rather than several years from now when we were trying to get private insurance!

It has also just hit us that with my internships starting, we are now a family that has both parents working. I recognize this may make us seem a bit dim, but I don't think the idea that this would be the case really crossed our minds. It made me a bit upset. It's always been really important to us to have one parent home. Then we talked about it and realized that we have always had to have two sources of income. Either we've both had jobs, or one of us has been in school and has received grants or loans to help with expenses, or Rob has had two jobs. So this isn't new. Plus we really feel like this field is where I am supposed to be.

My dream job is a stay-at-home-mom. I can't imagine anything more wonderful than getting to be a mom and raise my kids. I know this is all spiritual and personal and stuff, but we feel like being a therapist is what I was meant to do with my life. As if God said that He knew how much I wanted to be a mom, so He let me have six amazing children (and we were told multiple times that we would never be able to have children) and have over a decade of getting to focus on just being a mom. Now it is time for me to pay Him back for the amazing experiences He has allowed me to have by helping His children who are lost and need someone to help them find their way back. I'm not saying back to Him in a religious sense, I mean back to peace and happiness in whatever way that client decides is best for him or her. I feel so amazed that He is allowing me to go along for this ride. I sit in sessions and work with clients and feel like I am getting to be a spectator to the incredible process through which clients heal and find happiness.

Anyway, I know this has rambled a bit. I just wanted to get it down for me to read later :) Jack has a check up this afternoon (just a yearly physical), then I have a million things to do to get ready for my client tomorrow. Jack and I are going to turn his appointment into a mommy date. He'll go shopping with me for my office stuff and then I will take him to dinner. I got to do the same type of thing with Megan last week. She had her yearly check up, then we went out to dinner together. I love one-on-one time! It is nice having a nanny so that I can do more of that with each of the kids. Hopefully things get less crazy as we adjust to this and figure out how to get things to work in the best way possible :)