*THE MOMENT BETWEEN YOU AND REMARKABLE*
While in college, BJ planned to major in engineering. But, when it became too difficult to manage family, a full-time job, and several difficult courses at once (physics, calculus 3, and differential equations), he wondered if his dream was unrealistic and switched his major to business. After graduating with a Bachelors degree in Business Administration and working for a few years in the business field, he has been left wondering. Did he make the right choice? Does he really want to have to schmooze people, acheive sales quotas, appease unhappy customers, etc. for the rest of his life? Or should he pursue engineering…could that be the answer to finding a job that could be more meaningful and fulfilling? After much deliberation, he applied for a masters program in software engineering.
I found this quote by Seth Godin on Jeanette’s blog (Crunchy on the Inside) and felt the reality of that moment…that moment we were in:
“That moment when you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful… and you blink and take a step back.
That’s the moment. The moment between you and remarkable….”
He applied for the masters program and was accepted. He wanted to change careers. But, the inevitable doubts and concerns started to creep in. I’ll admit it. We did blink. We did take a step back. We were at the threshold of something big and exciting and terrifying and potentially incredible, and we stopped, paused.
I tend to think it is okay to blink and step back as long as we don’t allow our fears to rule our decisions. We thought. We prayed for guidance. We weighed the pros and cons. We prepared. Then, we decided. BJ will begin the program on September 5th.
So, here’s to following your dreams. Someone please remind me of this when I am exhausted from holding it all together at home all the time while he juggles work and school. Yes, I have grown accustomed to having BJ home for dinner every night, working as a team to get the girls to bed, having time to just sit and watch a movie together…. I realize that our lifestyle will change. I worry that my presence will not be able to make up for his absence in the girls lives. But, I want him to have a profession that he finds stimulating, challenging and rewarding. Well, it is past midnight so enough of my ramblings for now….

…to Kennady! Kennady and Addy love the mail. I am not very faithful about picking up my mail on a regular basis, so when I do pick it up, it is quite a load. They sit next to me as I open it and call dibs on the junk mail. They LOVE to open junk mail and collect all the fake credit cards/unused envelopes they can find. So, you can imagine the excitement when Kennady discovered that there was an actual piece of mail addressed to her! Bashas sent her a birthday card. She was excited to find coupons enclosed in the card and was interested to see what she could get. When she realized that one of the coupons was for a FREE birthday cake, she could hardly contain herself. She wanted to know how much it would cost to get her free cake. Apparently, she doesn’t quite get the concept of free yet! Once BJ explained to her that it didn’t cost anything, all she had to do was give them her coupon and they would give her a cake, she wanted BJ to drive her to Bashas that very minute to pick up her cake. Her enthusiasm was so contagious that he probably would have taken her that night if we had a Bashas closer to our house. But, she agreed to let him take her coupon to work with him the next day and bring her cake home with him. So, even though her actual birthday is still a month away, we celebrated last night! Not to worry, we will celebrate again in a month Happy Unbirthday Kennady!