New title, job description

Today I consciously and deliberately take the first step down – what I believe to be – the most important path of my life.

While I officially became a mother 17 months ago, at the time I felt I had to choose one path over another. I walked down one for a while, and then crossed over to a more familiar, previously trodden path. I’ve treaded both equally for the past year. I am thankful for the opportunities God has placed along these paths, and through them, he has opened my eyes and directed my heart. I am overjoyed to have the freedom to choose one path over the other while remaining grounded in who I’ve become through my experiences the past 17 months!

For me, I am not exchanging one aspect of my life for another. Starting today, I am wholeheartedly embracing the most important role I could ever have in life or on my resume – the role of a mother. It’s a title I regard higher than that of CEO, but I am embracing this important role with as much fervor as I would in the “professional” world. I am, after all, striving each and every day to be the best I can be in all my “professional” roles as a human being, a light to the world, a wife, mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, niece, cousin, friend, leader, role model, manager, director, animal steward, maid, nurse, comforter and, yes, even, at time, a diva, just to name a few!

While it may appear to some I have departed from the “professional” working world, my choice is quite the contrary. I officially, and with an overwhelming amount of joy in my soul, embrace and accept the most important position I will ever have the honor of accepting as a professional human being – Mother!