It's a Whole New Era*

Ever since I met her, she has had a paying job. When we first met she was a certified nurse assistant. She did that before and after we got married. After we moved to Kansas, she went back to school. All the while she kept working. On top of being a CNA, she did other jobs like Subway (wanted to be like me I reckon :) and some babysitting for some friends of ours.

After a while, she grew tired of the CNA job and while she finished getting her degree she joined the medical transcription world. After she graduated, she stopped doing medical transcription and successfully acquired a job with the American Cancer Society. She worked there full-time while I finished school. At the end of my second to last semester of college, she moved to a new division of the American Cancer Society. She continued to work for them until I found a job in Provo, UT and took her away from that job.

Once we got to Provo, she became a medical transcriptionist once again. We had high hopes that we would be able to have kiddos at this point, so it was a temporary stopgap until the kids came. The idea being that she would be able to make motherhood a full-time job. Well, the kids just never came, so she kept working doing the same old thing over and over and over again. She was bored with it, but kept plugging along. She held on to this job even while she went out and worked full-time as a manager of a portrait studio and then taking pictures of newborns at local hospitals.

She switched transcription companies in August of 2009. As a new employee, she was excited about what this new company had to offer her in terms of time off and benefits as well as being able to pay off some bills with the amount of work she could get done. Shortly after she started with the new company, the kid came. While we endured the saga of getting our precious little one, she didn't have any time off. She kept working even while away from home. We finally received Miles and she kept working. There was not time for her to take time to enjoy being a mom. Most moms get some sort of maternity leave, but she didn't. Adoption was expensive and we had to pay for it somehow, so she kept working.

All the while, Miles required a mother and she still kept working while being that mother. She did both for a bit over 2 years now and has done an amazing job! She is a great mother and has worked so hard and has endured plenty. And at last, she can put all of her focus on being a mother. I am so excited for her! She has hoped for this day to come for a long time now, and it finally came to fruition.

A whole new era in her life has just begun! The good news, it is what she has looked forward to for so long. The bad news, she still has to work!

I love you honey! Thanks for all you do to make us such a great family. I am so proud of you!

*I (Holly) was confused at first as to where this post came from and then I realized Dave hijacked my blog and wrote this! LOL! What a sweetie.