New Year, New Job

This is my last week of being a stay at home mom.  It has been good.  I will start a new job as a "complex case manager" next Monday.  It is going to be a Monday-Friday 8-5 desk job.  I am praying really hard that I can do this.  The whole "desk job" will be new for me.  They say you are so busy that the time goes fast.  I am hoping and praying that this is the case.  I am very thankful for this opportunity.

Katie is too.
 
A couple of times at church she has put a prayer request in the offering plate.  One time I saw it and quickly pulled it out before she could see me.  I saw what it said: " Please pray for a job for my mom Sandy Ryan."  OK.  It was not like we were hurting financially, missing meals, going without warmth or shelter. Nothing at all to say that  this child was doing without--ANYTHING.  One day we were doing something together and I asked her if she was concerned that mommy didn't have a job.  She said "No, I just want to go to after school learning center."

I was soooo relieved.  It is nice to know that is where they both want to go.

This past Sunday she put another prayer request in the offering plate. I quote: "Thankyou for my mom Sandy Ryan to get a job."  Grin.

The last 3 months have been a huge blessing.  I went through some unexpected grief back in October/November.  Truly I thought that I was losing my mind.  Mike and I are taking a whole bunch of vitamins and I can feel a great improvement.  Multivitamin, Amino Acids, Vitamin C in the a.m. and a  complex B vitamin at lunch--to get us through the afternoon lull. 

I was offered a job as a nurse liaison for a nursing home here in San Antonio.  Basically a marketing job.  Which would have taken me WAY out of my comfort zone.  We were praying very hard if this was the job to take or not.  The issue was that the boss of the SA office was Mormon.  That would have been OK.  When I came back for the 2nd interview with all of the directors, the head guy for Texas was there and interviewed me also.  I caught on in their conversation that he was mormon also.   I had asked my dear friend Sheila to pray for me, and we did together on my way to that interview.  God put it on my mind to ask one last question.  Who owns this group of nursing homes?  Well, I went home, looked them up and it turns out it is mormon.  I knew that I could not bring in patients, which brings in revenue, which eventually goes to all things mormon.

So my break from work continued.  Except God had a "job" for me.  I got to be with my dear friend and her mom who was in hospice.  I was available to just sit there.  And I was able to mentally do it.  Her mom passed away January 7, 2011.  It was a peaceful death.  I am so thankful that I was available to be there.  It was very meaningful to Cindy and me when our mom was in hospice and we had visitors who came in.  It was like a boost of joy for a few minutes.

I was offered this job that I am taking that following Monday.  I will be working with my best friend from high school Crystal.  We also went to nursing school together--but we have never worked at nurses together.