Changes

 These are just some cute pictures from our last days at school for a while :(  She looks terrified of that horse but she's really not, I just snapped it at an awkward time.  Her teacher had text me and asked if she could paint her toenails, I was thrilled!  I've been wanting to paint them but there's no way in heck that I could get that girl to sit still long enough for me to do that.  She said she did it when she fell asleep...duh mom!

I looked at my last post and realized it had almost been two weeks since I've updated our blog!!!  Most of you already know that I've quit my job at Insurance Network.  It just wasn't me.  I now know that I am NOT an office person and I could care less about spreadsheets and meaningless (to me) deadlines.  Fortunately it hit me really quick, about 2 or 3 days into it.  I remember a saved excel formula worksheet was entered and then re-saved wrong and my entire department was going crazy because of it and I just sat at my desk thinking "who cares?!"  This is so pointless to be wasting that much energy stressing over something so small and meaningless, just change the dang thing and move on.  Now I'm not going to sit here and say that everyone who works in an office setting should feel that way, not at all!  I know of plenty of people who work in offices and absolutely love their job, I'm just not one of them. 

It just so happened that when I put in my two weeks at the daycare another job offer came up literally a couple days after I accepted the Insurance Network job.  At the daycare we have a special needs girl who volunteers her time helping out with the kids and along with her she has a job coach.  The job coach's responsibility is to teach the girl anything that may help her become more independent.  So at the daycare she helps out anywhere she can (there's plenty to do there!) and a couple of mornings a week they'll volunteer at a nursing home and help wash dishes, fold towels etc.  And I know another time she took her grocery shopping where she had to make her own list and then shop for the items.  The job coach came to Jennifer and myself that week and said that she was moving out of town but the girl still has one more year left in the program at the high school and the girl's mom would really like it if Jennifer or I got the job because we were already very familiar with each other and knew what to expect.  I told her I would absolutely love to but I JUST accepted another job and Jennifer really wanted to stay at the daycare, and that's where it ended.  About three weeks into my IN job, the job coach and the girl's mom text me asking if I was still interested in the job coach position because they're interviewing for it that week.  I told them I would have to seriously think about it before I decided to risk my current position.  So I thought about it for a couple of days and then came to realize that I am not happy at IN and the amount of money really doesn't matter when you aren't.  I sent over my application and resume and got an interview. 

To make a long story short, I got the job!  I'm very excited because this is really helping me to get my foot in the door towards my career goal which is school counseling.  Even in my interview the principal looked at my resume and said "why haven't you pursued counseling sooner?"  I kind of laughed and said "well...right after college I got married and a few months later we were expecting a baby and it just got pushed to the back burner and nothing has ever really presented itself to lead me in that direction."  He then told me that he would really like for me to start working on my teaching certification asap so that next year he can put me in a classroom (because in Texas you have to teach for two years before you can counsel)!  So the long term plan is while I'm in my job coach position I'll be working on completing my teaching certification, then come next year I'll hopefully be able to get into a classroom to complete my one year internship and then teach for two years and while I'm teaching I'll be working on my master's degree to counsel.  I know, it's a huge task and it's going to be a lot of hard work but I want this SO bad.  I've already been working on my teaching certification, which is one reason why I haven't been able to post anything and of course the other reason is because Korbyn is home with me now :)

I would have stayed at IN until the job coach position started which is in August but I had to tell them sooner because I was scheduled to go to my insurance licensing classes and exam for an entire week and I really didn't want to put myself through that if I knew I wasn't going to even be using it.  I was supposed to start those classes on a Monday and I told them at IN on a Thursday.  I was SO nervous I was almost shaking when I told my manager and the HR manager about my situation.  But I was completely honest and upfront about everything and you could tell they appreciated it.  Then I told them that I really needed this job for as long as I can until August but I completely understand if they feel I need to leave immediately, just because I knew that they needed to get someone else in there to train right away.  They were so nice about it and said they would love to keep me on until they found someone else to replace me.  That at least gave me two more weeks of pay!  But now I get five weeks of Korbyn all to myself!!!  I decided to pull her out of daycare for the time being especially since I don't have a job, but she'll be going back when I start the job coach position.  When I knew that I would be out of a job for a while I had offered to clean a couple of people's houses just to earn some extra cash and I've actually had to recall my offer!  I've just been so busy taking care of Korbyn, working on my teaching certification and trying to get everything together for our vacation that I barely have time to clean my own house!  So there have been many changes taking place at the Coates' residence and I'll try to keep you all posted as much as possible :)