On June 1, I found out that I was being laid off from my job. From that point on, I hardly worked at all. I wrapped up a couple of projects, tied up a bunch of loose ends, passed all my work on to colleagues, packed up all my stuff, and shipped it to Chicago. Yesterday was officially my last day. It is still very surreal. I feel like I'm just on vacation and will be going back any day now. I knew lay offs were coming. Part of me really wanted to be laid off so that I could get a severance package and James and I could move on to the next chapter of our lives. Another part of me was terrified to get laid off. It presents a lot of challenges, worries, trials, and panic (on my part). It is also hard not to take it personally. I know it's all business, but it's all I have done for the nearly 12 years. I've been a reliable, steady, hard-working, and dedicated employee, and this is what I get? Oh well! What can you do?!
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| I definitely won't miss cleaning this up every day! |
I had to take all of our equipment out of the car and get rid of it all. It took forever and I would have never been able to do it without James' help.
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| I definitely won't miss this hunk of junk sitting in front of our house! |
It seemed like more people were being laid off than staying, so that made it a little easier to leave. I won't miss working at all. It has become pretty stressful with Porter at home. I will miss all the great people I worked with. You become pretty close with people after working together for 12 year. This job was perfect for me in so many way. I couldn't have asked for better job right out of college. I loved my job for probably the first 8 years for working. The last few have become less and less fun, but it paid the bill and wasn't miserable.
Now we will figure out something new, and hopefully we can make it work for me to stay at home with Porter boy full time!
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| Sure was weird setting my out-of-office on the last day! |
Amy and the kids met us at Chick-fil-A for lunch to celebrate my freedom! Let full time motherhood begin!
Porter is hilarious in his life vest. He won't move. He just stands there with this look on his face...
It must throw off his balance or something. It is a great find since usually he is all over the place and into everything. He may need to wear his vest to church to slow him down...ha!
Here is also a check in on our garden. We are so excited with how it is doing!
We bought a 6-pack of strawberries and after we planted them and they started to grow, one definitely wasn't looking like the others. Somehow we ended up with a random pea plant in our pack of strawberries.
Our tomatoes plants are growing like crazy, but there are still no signs of actual tomatoes. If they do produce, we are going to have tomatoes coming out of our ears!
We sure are loving summer time!
Then yesterday, we met up with our trek group to hike to Battle Creek Falls in Pleasant Grove. It was a fun hike, and we were mostly excited that so many of our trek kids were able to join us! After the hike, we stopped a Macey's for kong cones!
