Hello. Hello. Hello.

This photo was taken on a recent walk with Buddy.

I have walked this path hundreds of times.

It is a symbolic image of the path we travel in life, isn’t it?

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Can we have a little talk this am?

A casual conversation between you and me…which actually began on March 23rd.

Yes, that’s right.

I’ve been writing down my thought just for you for about 4 months now.

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So what happened last week?

No.  No way.

 I refuse to say:  “I’ve been too busy to write posts.”

I actually dislike detest – with a passion – when someone says,

“I’m sorry I didn’t call, write, visit, email, text, or acknowledge you were still on Planet Earth….because I was too busy.”

You know what?

Hey – we make time for what is a priority in our lives.

And a surprise happening took priority over everything else last week.

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So why didn’t I write last week?

Out of the clear blue sky, I found out that the impossible was becoming possible.  Perhaps.

 I am being considered for NOT ONE…but TWO amazing career opportunities.

Can you believe it?

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So I spent all last week preparing and prepping for my interviews (3 total) which I greatly enjoyed.

Because it has been decades ago since I was in a pressure situation like this, I was a tad nervous and ‘rusty’ to say the least.

So what’s my answer to everything????

Do you remember?

Research.

I researched both companies before I interviewed.

I researched their primary competitors.

I researched their client / customer base.

I researched my research.

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So there you have it.

I offer no excuses.

Just an honest explanation.

These job interviews were paramount to everything last week.

After tutoring every morning, I would prepare for these interviews.

Forget working out.  Forget cleaning my house.  I was hyper-focused on the interviews.

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But I am so happy to be back writing this morning.

 And thank you for reading when I was gone last week.

Truly the best feeling for a blogger – when there is readership without new content.

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This brings me to the topic du jour.

A look back on how I became a stay-at-home mom.

I never gave motherhood much thought.

Back in my day, I had sorority sisters and college friends who wanted to be a mother.  Period.  The degree was an incidental byproduct of college life.

When many of my friends were getting psychology degrees or accounting degrees or you-name-it degrees….some of my friends fully admitted they just wanted an M.R.S. degree.

Not me.  I wanted to set the world on fire by age 30.

As you have probably surmised, I certainly fell ridiculously short of that goal.

All I wanted in life was to be a highly successful career woman.

You see, most of my self-esteem came from my job description, the size of my office, moving up the corporate food chain via an increase in title and responsibility, and receiving invitations to the big, important meetings with big ‘important’ Executive and Senior VP’s.

My standard company uniform included dark, leather pumps and a strand of pearls.

I loved going to work. I loved my office.

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But things do change.

The minute I found out that I was expecting my first child, my heart grew full of love for a child I had never met.

Could we?  Should we? Would we….make it if we cut our family finances in half?

After putting a sharp pencil to paper, we decided the answer to the above question was – yes.

In one day, I went from having the title of  Vice President of Business Development to the title of….

Mommy.

No doubt, I would do it again in a heartbeat to be with my two little boys.

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But here I am today….decades later – on the cusp of returning to a life I left when Bill Clinton was America’s president….and coffee was served to our clients in paper-thin, bone china cups & saucers.

Wow.

If either of these two positions become a reality, I will learn how to dedicate 100% to my newfound career and make time to do what I love in the evenings….WRITE!

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Thank you for listening today.

I have a very special lineup for this week designed for you.

A new development in Dyslexia research.  A must-read post for moms who want to grow up successful children!  Please do not miss that post.

 And a very special Friday Inspirational Post to end our week.

Forever grateful you are a reader.  And I mean that.