You should get a hobby...

After 6 weeks of maternity leave I had to return to my job as an 8th grade English teacher.  I loved my job, but after my son was born I had less zeal to be at work and more of a desire to be at home with him.  Even though my husband was staying home with our baby, I hated that I was missing so much.  I was spending my life raising other people's kids and missing my own.  So after 2 months back at work I decided that was my last year of teaching.  My husband and I always intended to move back to New Mexico where we grew up at some point.  So during the summer break from school we packed up our house in Oklahoma City while the baby played in his jumper and moved back home to be around our family.  Jonathan was now 6 months old and I was enjoying being home with him full time.  Peter, my husband, came to me one day and suggested that I take up a hobby.  He said drawing while Jonathan was taking naps and such while he was home really helped him and he thought I needed something like that too.  Well I am not creative, nor am I good at coming up with new projects to keep me busy in an artistic sense.  So, I took up the mantle of natural living.  A lot of things helped push me in this direction, but that is for another time...