So far it has been an interesting summer! Thought I would catch up with everyone and try to start blogging again. The pool is closed for maintenance today so I have a reprieve from the kids and the other moms.
Last I wrote I had just been fired from my job. Oddly I was heartbroken. I was beside myself with panic for the first day or so....crushed that I had lost the job I loved so much. Then...not so much.
Slowly I realized I did love the actual work I was doing...and most of the people I worked with were fabulous, couldn't ask for better. I certainly loved the paycheck and that's where most of the panic stemmed from....but I hated the commute, and gas was on the rise. As time wore on all the panic left and a huge sigh of relief replaced it, my shoulders climbed out of my ears and life, though now complicated by financial worry seemed somehow much sweeter.
I discovered I HATE working in the corporate world. I've since spent WONDERFUL time with my kids, swimming, playing, goofing off and running amuck. We eek by on savings or month to month but we are making it and an odd sense of rightness glosses over the anxious bits.
My mom and stepdad came to visit and another layer of purpose came into focus. I am starting my own business. My stepdad developed a raised bed gardening system and a soil used in that system and I am going to be the Houston distribution office...though....things are still in the "figuring the logistics out" stage. We took a road trip to Missouri and Oklahoma in June and the week long trip turned into an almost three week long trip with exciting ups and downs. We found the PERFECT 130 acre farm/ranch, within our set budget but things did not pan out for buying it....yet. BUT now we all know what we want!
When the blow came that we couldn't get the land and farm we all fell in love with it was daunting....the whole "How can we do this now..." question came up but my hubby was jazzed. Excited....and extremely positive! He said "we will just do it from the back yard and eventually when the company grows enough we will expand and buy some land or a store front and go from there." Up till last week we were going with that far more complicated and difficult version of the plan...but doable none the less, trying to stay positive. (Hard to do when you're so scared but hey...we try)
Now the Universe has offered another avenue...a scary one that involves moving about half an hour, forty five minutes out of town but...still, oddly comforting and doable. We went to see the land and housing and after the initial butterfly gut we are all pretty positive it is workable. Now we just wait and see what the money side looks like so cross those fingers for me!
This weekend we all got together to discuss it and had sea food that was uber yummy, shrimp and salmon. I've been trying to get more sea food and fish into the family menu for the kids and for myself and so far things have been pretty well received. Even picky Niky loves fish!
My older brother is in Europe taking classes at the Globe theatre in London and seeing all the museums for another week. I read his travel blog and laugh and smile, excited that he is having an adventure and enjoying things there so very much. I do hope he can make it an annual thing and travel in the Summer from now on. He enjoys it so much!
So yeah, still unemployed...oddly not ooooverly concerned about it though. Yet...lol
I will keep you guys posted on the business end, and in the mean time if you are curious about the Raised bed gardening I am talking about go to www.gardeningrevolution.com and take a look. I will be selling the soil product and teaching people how to build the beds and plant, harvest and even hopefully...eventually how to can and cook with the food from their own gardens! Times are getting tight for everyone, produce and fruit...food in general is getting so expensive and I don't know about you but the produce I do see in the stores is ugly and sad looking... raising my own small garden (or big if the opportunity pans out) to help take some pressure off the bills and give my kids a healthy alternative to the tasteless store bought stuff in cans is something I am really excited about!
Well...that's all for now. If you haven't heard from me or thought I was just being an unfriendly snot it really wasn't the case. I was just running around like a nut from state to state, stumbling from hope to fear to hope again...trying to sort out things from day to day.
Just like every body else. ;)