intentionally unemployed

One week of being jobless- you have no idea how much better I am sleeping at night. My soul and heart are less anxious. I feel like myself again, and my house is already significantly more clean and tidy. That I let my job own me like that is pretty embarrassing and revealing of my sinful heart, but I am nonetheless glad to be putting it aside and moving on to the next phase of life.

As I take on this housewife role, I am striving to do it well... but simply. A few blogs I have been perusing in this pursuit: Passionate Homemaking, Pioneer Woman, The Christian Simple Living Blog. There are more, but I think that's plenty to list. I am supposed to be simplifying and NOT spending all my time reading blogs, right? Anyhow, Collin & I are both pretty passionate about trying to use our time, money, and resources efficiently for the glory of God. It's about to look a lot different being down one paycheck and with a significant increase in time availability for me... I'll let you know how that goes.

Another thing I am trying to do in my free time is get ready for having a baby in our life. In case this is news to you, I am currently about 17 weeks through pregnancy. This means my normal clothes are starting to look a little sad on me, and I'm in an awkward transition into maternity clothes. Neither set of clothes looks quite right in my current belly state. Maybe once my maternity clothes start to not look so ridiculous we can post a belly picture or two. Here in a few weeks we will know whether Little Foster is a boy or girl, which will be very exciting. Currently the amount of "prep" I can do is pretty limited without this knowledge. 

Well, I think that's enough for today. I'm off to keep working on using my time well...