No More TPS Reports!
It’s official, I am now a stay-at-home-mom. Yesterday was my last day on payroll at the Air Force Personnel Center. It took me about three days of going to Randolph AFB in three hour increments to complete my two outprocessing checklists. I will never understand why I had to find obscure offices hidden in a maze of cubicles and hallways to get signed off on items that clearly did not apply to me. But then again, I worked for the federal government and not much usually makes sense.
I am incredibly happy to free of a job with a boss and timesheets. I still have a job, but I am now my own boss and I can set my own hours. In fact, I have worked with Annabelle to set our own schedule where we usually go to bed around 11:00 p.m. and don’t get going for the day until 10:30 a.m. Its great! I know we won’t be getting that extra paycheck every two weeks, but now part of my new job is to help us stay within the budget that we create together at the beginning of every month.
Daniel and I started Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover in January of 2005. It is because we have “lived like no one else”, and followed this book, that I am now able to stay at home. Paying down our debt and learning to name every dollar before the month begins has been one of the most amazing and freeing things we have ever done.
I am looking forward to the next few years of being a baby factory and focused on pregnancy, feeding, and potty training. It is quite a different job from sitting in a cubicle at a computer and getting routine appraisals to tell me how well I am doing my job, but I am excited to embrace this next challenge in my life.
Girl you plan to be really busy, but I am so happy for you. Good for you and Daniel. I think that is awesome. WE need more of it and good job on Dave Ramsey. We don’t follow all of his principles, but we definitely live by the basics. Get rid of debt and save.
Have a good one.
I am so proud of you both for accomplishing this goal. Amanda, I still remember you telling me that you and Daniel had a plan and I was always excited for you both when you would achieve each step of your goals. Congratulations to both of you. Amanda, I know you will excel at your new job and as loving and caring as Daniel is towards you, I am certain that both he and Annabelle will reward you for all of your work in ways that can never be measured by an appraisal given on a piece of paper.
I am chuckling that you say you are anxious to be a baby factory
You don’t hear that very often…
ugh. I am testing Pay Pool objects….for reports on those good ol’ appraisals!!! yay!!
Welcome to this AWESOME job!!!