Whew! It's dusty around here. I'm really sorry about that. I love blogging and had no intention of taking a break. I suddenly found myself on a detour. Not a bad detour, it was just that my journey of life took a sharp left turn into the hills as opposed to toward the ocean. Nothing wrong with it, it's still pretty, it's just different than expected and required an adjustment period.
Let me explain. So I have 3 kids. You mostly all know this. Every time I have had a baby God has worked out our financial and job situation to accommodate the baby. Each time I had no idea what God was going to do but every time I trusted Him to reveal an opportunity for me. With Trinity God enabled me to stay home for a year and then work part time around our family's needs until she was 10. When Caleb came around I got a promotion at work upon my return from maternity leave which enabled me to work from home 3 days a week and go into work 2 days a week. It was awesome! Then when Amelie was born it became very obvious to me that having 2 littles around was not conducive for holding down a job. My days were utterly consumed by caring for them, the house and myself. We started to pray for an answer because we needed my income, but I had no real option for earning it. One evening God told me to go to the Bible study at my old church. So i did. I started to make friends with one of the girls there and it turns out she was a distributor for It Works. I am quite familiar with the company since I had been a distributor with them a few years ago when Caleb was a baby. I had a pretty negative experience at that time due to the team I was on. My team leader would bully those under her, lie to customers, and just not be an honest business woman at all. It was never the company that gave me a bad taste, it was my team. I cut myself off from my team and tried to go it alone. I did not want to be associated with dishonesty. Unfortunately, I couldn't hack it alone, so I quit. Now 3 years later this new friend of mine is chatting with me about it again and explaining how things had changed. Her team ran very differently and everything that had made me quit the first time was not an issue anymore. So with a determined heart, I signed up again. I worked my butt off. Failure was not an option. This was my option to make money around the needs of my family and I had to make it work. There was no "try". There was no "lets see if i can make it work". I decided it would work. I worked my business while the baby slept. I worked while Caleb was in school. I texted with customers while DJ gamed at night. I did most of my business building while stuck on the couch nursing the baby. I met with my team mates to mentor them while our kids played together. Any "free" moment I had that would not take away from my family's needs, I worked. I was on a short time constraint for a $1,000 bonus and I was not about to miss it. And that right there is why my blog got dusty. I was using the time I would normally write, to work, What precious, little time it was. I did get the bonus, by the way, so it was worth it. I have nearly replaced my full time income. I am working smarter, not harder. I am being successful and feeling quite pleased. I'm not where I want to be yet, but I am making significant progress. Also my teammates have become friends! They are supportive and amazing and give awesome training! God really put me on the best possible team for the way I do business, and my personality. I'm also going to start blogging again. What is the use of a "job" that I can revolve around my life, if I'm not going to do something that makes me happy? So I'm back. Expect more stories, kids, pictures and fun. I missed you guys :)
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