A New Beginning!

 

Levi is now six months old!


So, I have had four days now with this adorable little boy that I am blessed to call my grandson.  Needless to say I am drunk with love for this precious little man.  

The first night we were here, I got to rock him to sleep and I looked over at my husband, who was looking over at me, and I teared up.   Then he teared up.  What a mess we are.  

But how we love this child--we are just crazy about him.  What a blessing it is to live to see your grandchild and what a blessing to be able to spend some time with him when he lives so far away.  (The reason I am so aware of what a blessing it is to live to see a grandchild, is because I have two in-laws who died young, they never lived to see theirs...)

We aren't the only ones who love this little bebe....his parents do, too.  Since Levi was born, Jamie and Thad have wrestled with whether she should go back to work, and after taking the maximum amount of time allowed for maternity leave--she did return to her job.

 

But it got harder and harder each day.  For one, Jamie's job was in a high-stress environment.  It was a good job and one for which she was able to use her college education, but it was a long commute, almost an hour each way.  

She asked her boss for the ability to work from home and researched how to make it possible.  He said no.


She tried a sitter in her hometown but couldn't stand being so far away from her little newborn boy all day long....which turned out to be eleven hours a day.

She found a very nice daycare ten or fifteen minutes from work and visited him each day on her lunch hour.  But still it hurt so bad to leave him there--her heart was with him and no longer with her work.

She and her husband recently decided that she would take the leap of faith it took to give up a well-paying job in these tough economic times to become a stay at home mom and do the work of her heart: to be Levi's mommy.

It wasn't done without planning:  they have no debt and they worked to build up a rainy day fund.  

So, her last day of work was the day before Christmas eve.  

She is now Levi's full-time mommy.

I have to say that we are so proud of them for their very hard work in being able to make it possible for her to stay home in the first place--and for the tough choice it sometimes can be be to do the right thing, when it's really the hard thing.  Most people would tell her she is nuts to give up what she had.  She doesn't think so and followed her heart.

I don't think they'll ever be sorry.