Resumes and Late Nights

Last night, Heber and I were up late editing a resume for someone in our ward.  It was like a flashback to our life a year ago.  I can just picture us up late, Heber sitting at the computer writing cover letters or applying for jobs.  I was holding our Amy girl, who was crying (she didn't get the hang of sleeping at night for a long time).  Then we'd trade and I'd edit.  I don't even know how many resumes and cover letters I've written over the years, too many.  Can I just say how thankful I am that it's not one of our resumes that we're working on.  I'm hoping we're settled for a while.

That was a rough time. Putting yourself out there is incredibly stressful.  It's just as stressful being the supporting spouse.  I can say that it was rough because here we are a year later, Heber is in a new job that he really likes.  He learned that he can successfully go through a job hunt (which is a confidence boosting knowledge).  I'm so grateful to be a year away from that. 

I pulled up my old resume to send as an example (the guy had written his work experience in paragraph format, I'm a firm believer in the bullet points).  I grabbed one off of my old portfolio website, you can see it here.  My life right now is so firmly entrenched in mom mode that I almost forgot all that I had done before.  I spent a little time today looking through some of my old projects and writing.  It's good to remember.  I'm happy with where I am now, but I am so happy to have done so much before. 

Leo's getting pretty good at taking pictures.

 

Chicago.

Chicago.  I flew out all by myself for a weekend away.  I don't know that I have ever been away from the kids.  To say this was momentous was an understatement. 

I met my sisters and mom to spend a few days seeing the sights, ok, really we were there to shop.  It's how we Lawrence's travel.  Heber doesn't understand that is what you do on vacation.  Between us all, we left behind four husbands and nine young children.  I can't believe that it all came together but we had the best time talking and laughing together.  I miss them so much that it was nice to be able to see them.

 We ate at some great restaurants.  My favorite was the Shake Shack.  Yes, it's a burger place but it was the best burger I've had.  Ever.  We really liked XOCO, a mexican but not traditional mexican food place. 

 

 

 

 

 We stayed in the Courtyard Marriot off the Magnificent Mile.  I usually don't put in hotels, but this one was great! It was so close to everything, all the shopping and good food and it was right by public transits spots to get anywhere else.  If you're going to Chicago, stay there!

It felt weird to be without my little family.  I'm so used to keeping an eye on little ones that it was a nice break to just look out for myself for a while.  Heber was a champ here at home and made it possible for me to go.  He said it went pretty well except for Amy seeing my picture and breaking down and pointing at me.  I guess it's not a bad thing to be wanted.   The time away gave me some new perspective on our life.