Change in my Daily Routine

In just a little while, my daily routine is going to change quite a bit. No, I am not talking about when I have my baby. I am talking about work.

For those who don't know, at the end of June 2010, I was hired on as an Intern at Market Strategies International, working on their Healthcare team. The expectation was that I would be able to be hired on full time a few months later. Well some things happened.

1) We brought on another girl to the team in the fall. She had been working with a different department in the company as an Intern since May. When the opportunity she thought she was going to be able to go into on that team fell through, her internship with that team ended and she was able to come into Healthcare. Right around October/November Healthcare had the opportunity to hire some of the Interns (like 2 or 3 out of 6 or 7) into full time positions. They could only hire one of the Portland interns, and they chose the other girl as she had been working for the company longer. 2) I got pregnant! I told work that I would not be returning after I had my baby--I want to be a stay at home mom. Because of this, they decided to give me the chance to stay on as an intern, as long as I wanted, until the baby comes, but hiring me full time for a few months wasn't really going to be feasible.
So now, I had the decision to make. How long do I continue to work? Originally I told them that I would stay until the beginning of May and then leave the company. However, I have been unhappy for a while, large in part to my working full time and I am starting to worry about my general health while working full time. I have struggled over this decision for a long time. David doesn't like to see me break down in tears, especially when there is nothing he can do to fix it. And this was happening much too frequently, especially on sunday nights as I faced the prospect of the coming week. Concerns over my health and general well being lead to the final decision--stop working sooner than planned.

Thus, at the end of February I will no longer be a full time employee anywhere. I will become a stay at home wife and allow myself to get healthier and take care of my unborn baby. I am quite excited at the prospect. I am already thinking about things I want to do--scrapbooking, crocheting, organizing the house, take a yoga class... I will work part time as I plan to get back in touch with the temp agency I worked with before. But I feel like now I can do things that I want and need to do, before baby arrives and turns things upside down, including taking care of myself and my pregnancy better. :)

So very soon, my daily routine will become much more lax. :) The experience at Market Strategies has been good, and I am grateful that I had the chance to work there, to use the skills I learned in school/working with Darron and learn some new ones. I'm grateful I had the chance to actually use my degree, at least for a little while. But I know that my place really is in the home. I've never wanted a full time career, and I know that even more now. It isn't for me. I'm grateful that I was blessed with this experience but also grateful that I could make the choice to move on.