Noting this morning how thankful I am to be living in the Inland Northwest! This year has been full to the brim with ups and downs, but I am consistently awed by goodness of my God. I closed my business doors for the final time on July 14 and turned in the key to the landlord and it has already been extremely full. Only 12 days and new memories and time with my kids is fast filling every moment! There are so many more facets to the closing of a business than I can list, but one way God has shown His gracious hand is through Jeffs employment. When we moved to Spokane in 2008, Jeff did not have a job. He waited for two months and then worked for a firm that could not continue to employee him through the financial downturn. He found another job almost immediately, though and worked at a local community college as an instructor. It was a drastic change from structural engineering to engineering tech instructor. The week that I announced to my my customers that we were closing The Homeschool Book Shop, Jeff found out that his contract at the school was not going to be renewed. He had 6 more weeks to fulfill before he had time to even look for a new position. On his last day at the school, he submitted a resume (to a firm that was not advertising for his position) and interviewed the next day. Just a few days after the school term ended, Jeff started with the new firm and I donated the final inventory to a local fund raiser for a church youth camp on the same day! Just a few days later, we closed the doors of the Shop and I began a remodel project at home. I am so thankful that our major transitions were so well timed (only God could work out such incredible details with the kind of amazing coincidences). We are settling into our new family direction and just in time! It is a joy to be able to even consider helping others, spending time teaching my kids to drive (yes, two at once and we are surviving), manage Davids band, run kids to activities, be a mom, a wife, and do things like grocery shop and do laundry. I know challenges will occur and I have more time to pay attention to the details of life, but my 14 year old son is still so happy to have me around more and I cant get enough of my kids! One thing at a time, but this may be the most significant summer I have had in many years and it all comes down to being available! Being available seems so insignificant and small, but there are so many things I have missed over the past six years of business ownership and the most frustrating is that I have not been available to my family. I still feel spread thin, but at least I am here, with my kids, for the last few years of their time as kids at home. I am loving the journey, watching them grow up, being spontaneous, knowing that if they need me, I can be there, all because I am available. Take time to look your kids in the eyes today and be available. Pause long enough to truly look at them and listen to them. They are precious and the moments you have to do this are precious.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:56:49 +0000
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