Live with intention

Walk to the edge

Listen hard

Practice wellness

Play with abandon

Laugh

Choose with no regret

Continue to learn

Appreciate your friends

Do what you love

– Mary Anne Radmacher

 My current manager gave me those words on the first day I joined her team. They were written at the end of a list of her goals for they year. I thought they were very fitting when I found them as I was cleaning out my desk.

I can’t believe tomorrow is my last day at Target.

God used Target to introduce me to some amazing people who literally changed the course of my life. The most amazing one, of course, was the guy I met over designing Table Talkers and refreshing the Distribution boxes. But others, like my dear KK, the other two a’s in AAA, my communications friends and mentors, my BFF, and my current amazing team all offered me friendship while doing amazing work.

But, like the line in the poem says, I want to “live with intention.” Promotions, paygrades and office hours mean a lot less to me than they used to. Rafael and I have been praying for a way for me to come home – and He gave it to us! I found an amazing opportunity to join a new company and use my skills in a new way – in a 100 percent work-from-home position. The salary? Exactly equal to my current pay minus daycare. We are able to provide exactly what our family needs.

Even typing that reminds me that it is almost too good to be true. When I started dreaming about staying home with Giana, part of me couldn’t believe that it would happen. After all, we have too many bills. Student loans don’t pay themselves off. A family of four needs to eat and have clothes to wear. But look at what He did! God made a way where I was sure there couldn’t possibly be one. He honored my heart’s desire to bring my little girl home.

In this new stage of our lives, we will continue to live with intention. We will seek the Lord and do our best to build our life in a way that honors Him. I’m so thankful that He has given us an even more ideal work situation to help us do it.