Hi and thanks for reading my humble little blog. My name is Emily, alias JuneBug Jones. Mom of 3, wife of 1, and “guardian” of a fart-tastic Boston Terrier. I am T-minus 21 days from leaving my employer of the better part of four years, and I couldn’t be more jazzed about it! With God’s grace and provision, my husband has built a nice little business that we can call our own, and it’s finally reached critical mass, where it actually doesn’t make sense for me to work anymore. I am seriously looking forward to every aspect of becoming a SAHM, even the part about tightening the reins on our spending. It feels like a treasure hunt- scoping out coupons, pasting items from the sale ads onto my shopping list, scouring the way-back cobwebby corners of the stores for the last minute clearance deals and day-old breads. To be honest, though, I am a little shell-shocked at the thought of entering the foreign land know as SAHMhood. I never thought I would want to stay home, let alone be able to afford it. I will dearly miss the friendships I’ve forged with coworkers…these are women with whom I’ve spent 40 hours a week for 3 and a half years! They’ve been my support system when things at home were rough, and they’ve been coconspirators in our plans to overthrow the crappy vacation-time rules. But the reasons to go are far more compelling than the reasons to stay. Just today, in fact, I filled 2 notebook pages (College ruled!) with a list of things I will finally have the time to do. Things like exercizing, cooking roasts that take 4 hours, and drinking my coffee from an elegant ceramic vessel rather than a travel mug. Oh, and playing with my kids…natch.
I invite you to follow me through the looking glass, into this alternate universe apart from the hustle and bustle of two-income capitalism. I am sure to have some clumsy moments as I fumble my way around, but I pray that with God’s abounding grace, I will still be alive and intact with (most of) my wits about me by the time my youngest graduates high school.
