Working Mom or Stay at Home Mom

So before I ever even thought about babies, I always thought I will NEVER be at stay at home mom. I just NEED to be involved.. I am an out and about sort of lady. I spent the beginning of my self proclaimed "career" doing events for Saks Fifth Avenue.. doing events I never could have imagined I would be doing, meeting world famous designers and being smack dab in the middle of the craziness our city has to offer. Now at this time, I was 22 years old, loving the college life and this job seemed to be in my way. I could kick myself now a days for not taking full advantage. But shoulda, coulda, woulda right? I then moved on to graduate college and took a job downtown SA at a Private Club, members only and my job was recruiting members. These members are the elite of San Antonio. Judges, Congressmen, lawyers, executives. We had fun mixers, events, amazing food and more networking. I had worked there 2 years and this is when I decided to take my life in a new direction. Putting all of my energy into the family biz. Fishing lures. This was traveling the state of Texas and literally working our butts off setting up expos.. selling, advertising and promoting sometimes till we fell over. Now to present day, I work for a medical supply company who specialize in spine products and I am so blessed to be able to work from home. I am still able to be with my little mini.. but I have to say the older she gets, it gets a little more complicated. I used to second guess those moms who officed from home and either had a nanny come in or they still put their kids in daycare. My husband has this saying never spit up in the air.. because it always has to come down (In spanish it makes a little more sense i think). Meaning watch what you say because you never know until you have been there. And boy am I eating my words about that one. Although baby E is on a pretty solid schedule, that baby schedule doesn't always jive with my work schedule.. conference calls, reports, payroll. I have to give it up to those who work from home and keep the little ones with no help. God bless you ladies. So that being said, would it be soo much easier just to be home and not work? Or work and put my heart in school? I thought that was the best part about working from home was getting to be with her every day? Well only time will tell at this point depending on the directions of where these businesses lead us. But I am thinking a life change is in the near future. I definitely don't want either parties to suffer, my job but especially my little whom I want to give the sun, moon and stars and just like every mom believes she absolutely deserves this. But could I really be a stay at home mom? My mind convinces me of one thing.. while my heart tugs in the complete opposite direction.

A Whole New World

It seems my last blog post was over a year ago.. wow. Looking back over my entire blog it started off as a story about a couple in their first years of marriage, taking an idea and pursuing the American Dream.. creating a legacy. Magic in Fishing. We found the magic we were looking for. Almost a year later and our entire world has transformed into something we could never even dream up. So to sum up 2012 and everything in it.. just one small thing that is more than any business venture, more than any job can offer, no amount of money can compare... May 21, 2012 our lives were blessed with the greatest most insane amazing gift in my 30 years of living. This little girl became IT for us. The reason we fight for our dreams, the reason we live, we love, and the one person who taught us who we really are in this life. You hear people talk about the love they have for their children and it just doesn't compare to the actual feeling in your soul. This feeling slapped us both right off of our feet instantly and we are still trying to stand back up. But it seems we will never make it back up.. Our lives have been changed forever. Emmalynn Faith is the best part of each one of us. She is an exact copy of her daddy, but has mommy shining right through those green/grey eyes. She is going to be one fire ball. She absolutely loves her sleep. She began sleeping thru the night at 5 weeks and we haven't turned back. She rolled over at 2 months on my sisters birthday, July 16th in front of my family. Show stopping already! Her first word was Momma on November 1.. best day for her mommy. Her first Halloween she was an elephant. She attended her 1st Friendsgiving that we have every year at our house. She got her ears pierced the day before Thanksgiving along with her 6 month shots and was a champ. But the best was her first Christmas. Mommy and Daddy tried to start all sorts of new traditions with a 7 month old that could care less about anything but the wrapping paper and lights. But wow.. December 2012 will go down in my book as magical for sure. She loves to babble and she is VERY loud. Watching her little personality develope each day makes my heart smile. She loves the water, bathtime is the highlight of her day. Sometimes when I feel like skipping the bath one night, it's like she tells me, "No way Mom, I cannot skip my bath!" Swimming classes are in the near future for this little one. And now she is becoming mobile. She scoots herself around and rolls to where she needs to get to. So now the real fun begins.. baby proofing. She loves sweet potatoes and squash. Not very picky when it comes to eating.. so far green beans is the only no go. Her favorites are bannanas and mangos. She loves our two dogs and I know it's only a matter of time before she will be waking up asking to see her pups. Emma is so completely full of light and such a sweet soul, we still sit and stare at her in pure amazement knowing that she is piece of us. Not only has Emmalynn taught us about being parents, but of course my husband is constantly thinking of new ideas. Well a new adventure is born. A new idea in the toy industry. Now this ride together with baby and God willing babies to come will be unbelievable. I feel like our lives have just started and started with a bang. More to come on this journey. Although we have new partners in the fishing lure business and are not completely hands on, even that partnership was devine. Only Gods hands could have put that together and it was not only done at just the right time, the business has never been bigger. So maybe not so much magic as much as blessings were found in fishing and we have begun a new journey.. A family!! So as we embrace this next part of our lives, from parenting mistakes and accomplishments, to new business and projects, to building our legacy... I will forever hold a place in my heart for the fishing lure business but onward we go.