Everything has a Season...

"The end of a matter is better than its beginning,

and patience is better than pride.

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,

for anger resides in the lap of fools."

Ecclesiastes 7:8-9

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To finish what we start takes hard work, wise guidance, self-discipline, and patience. Anyone with vision can start a big project. But vision without wisdom often results in unfinished projects and goals. I am having to remind myself of this today... I was offered a second part time job today, and with a reluctant heart I smiled and took the offer. I would have liked to have just returned to the coop full time, but was placed back into the same position I had last year (which is part time). So to help make ends meet I am now working two part time jobs while going to school full time and running a household. Please don't take this journal entry as a seeking for pity. In fact it is the exact opposite. I would be lying to say that I haven't had a few tears this evening (privately) with the thought of working evenings, and what that will entitle that I miss out on... also working Saturdays now and every 4th Sunday afternoon. This isn't want I would choose to be doing, but it is what I have to work with right now. I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that Curtis and Cadie can be home with either Brett or I as much as possible. I am very Thankful for my Mom and the love she has for my children, but we are supposed to be raising our children, not Grandma. It is important that I focus my thoughts that "The end matter is better than the beginning" and remember that this season of our lives too shall pass. Although I am in no hurry for my "babies" to grow up any faster than they already are. So I chose to be thankful for a second job, in a time when some people have a difficult time finding one job. Two years from now I will be getting ready to start my own classroom, and I will know then that the "end" was worth all of the hard work put in, in the beginning!