Exciting News

This week started out kind of stressful with my job. The CEO was making announcements about jobs and money, you know all that fun stuff, since our census has been so low for about 6 months now. Let me preface by saying that I truly do not like having to wish for sick kids but seeing how I’m a pediatric nurse at a hospital that is just part of my job. And honestly I need my job!

Okay so back to the announcements….

I don’t remember all the details but the biggest one they changed is our weekend option. They decided they were cutting back MAJOR on people that would be working strictly weekends which initially does not effect me since I don’t work weekends. However, I really wanted to go to weekend option before or right after Korbyn gets here. With all the changes they were making this was definitely not going to happen now. I was really sad and disappointed. I know that giving up every weekend does not sound fun but K would not have to go to daycare, I could still work, and be home during the week. Plus who doesn’t really just want to work 2 days a week.

Monday afternoon Jay received a call about a job  he has been waiting on. It’s a company that is very family oriented and he knows his boss and really likes him already. It’s not really a change in pay or anything but it is a place he believes he will be happier at. Which, after watching him really dislike is current job, I am ecstatic about. As a bonus he gets a company truck which will allow him to be able to drive both kids around. Woo-hoo! Something we were kind of stressing about because he has always had company vehicles so we haven’t ever bought him a personal one but they have always been work vans that only carry 2 people. So this job is a HUGE blessing.

Okay after that side note. Jay picked up the paper from daycare for our taxes stating how much we paid in day care of the last year. Want to take a wild guess? Over 5 THOUSAND dollars. Holly cow! I about passed out!

This is where my, well our, other big decision came into play. We thought about daycare and the fact that it was going to be even MORE with an infant and thought how we could change this. So back to my story above about the hospital changing a lot of stuff. Part of the problem with them taking people out of their weekend option shifts is that they will have to go to part time employees and will lose their full family benefits. And some of them just can’t do that. Here’s the great part….Jay starting this new job has opened up a way for us to put our family on his insurance. Which in turn means that I could go to a part time job, keep my insurance on me, but put Jayci on his insurance. So I talked to my boss on Wednesday about wanting to go part time and work Friday-Sunday only, and only 2 days instead of 3. I would do it without the weekend option contract and it would open up my full time spot to someone who needed benefits. I think she was just as EXCITED as I was. She agreed almost immediately.

So to sum up a very long story…. Jay got a new job that we think he will be much happier at and gets a vehicle that can carry 2 kids. I get to go part time either right before K comes or when I go back to work from maternity leave. Financially we are thrilled!

I am a little nervous about just working part time. I have never not wanted to work. The desire to be a stay at home mom has never hit me. So I really think this will be the best of both worlds. I will get to be home with my babies during the week and only have to work 2 nights on the weekends. I am so excited about these changes.

We have stressed and prayed that something would change with our jobs and here we are, at perfect timing, both getting the changes we have prayed for. Well, that was a really long story that probably could have been much shorter but oh well.

Okay well I hope each of you have a very good weekend. We have a certain someone’s 5th birthday to celebrate. I can’t believe my baby girl is going to be 5. It is just surreal to me how fast it goes by.

Just for fun here is one of her pictures I took of her in her birthday shirt the other day. She was quite full of herself that day so I don’t feel like I got great pictures but they were okay and captured her at this age.

 

Hope you all have a good rest of the week and a good weekend!

~Kristen