Welcome to my crazy life. I try to think positively about life. You need to. I love life. And I do believe that I'm lucky! It does get crazy busy, and crazy fun at times. Between my almost 3 year old Juli (and all of her activities), my family (being a wife and all that comes with it), my business, awesome friends, hobbies and just finding time for myself things can get busy.
I love working from home. It means that I can take care of Julianna and be there for her, but that I can also bring in an income and help my family. That is important for me. I can let her do half days at school and be there to get her at lunch and take her to swimming in the afternoons. Take her to play dates or just Mommy + Juli shopping dates at the mall... It's the best of both worlds. Truly one of the best decisions I ever made.
I'm also extremely environmentally conscientious. I know that we need to treat the Earth right so that She can be there for our children. They need to have a healthy planet to grow up on. This is extremely important. I recycle everything I possibly can and always do my part. There are so many harmful things out there today. I'm always educating people about this. Deep passion of mine.
But between all that and being a wife I make the effort to find time for me. It is one of the most important things I have learned. If I don't take care of me I can't take care of them. Took me a long time to learn this. So I make the time do things for me. Exercise - I love Yoga and Pilates. My soaps - yes I am a big soap fan lol. Reading - my Kindle gets a good work out. Photography - a big passion of mine that I love to indulge in. And last, but I think one of the most important Genealogy - I'm compiling our family history so that my daughter will know as much of her roots as possible.
I took this idea from my late grandfather and have really developed a passion for it. I recently also discovered that one of my close friends has a passion for it is well so we make the effort to work on it together. Discovering your past and all about your ancestors is such an amazingly fun thing to do and it is very time absorbing. You can really lose yourself in it. You can learn so much about yourself too. It has been very inspiring for me.
Most important of all though: be true to yourself. Life is too short to not be happy. I finally came to understand that at the end of last year and have been working really hard this year to put this into action. You have to remove the negative from your life and focus on the positive. I didn't want to look back 10 years from now and realize that I have been unhappy. Realize that I could have focused on better things for my daughter and myself. The time to change this is now. So I have worked very hard on this. I think I have done a pretty decent job so far.
When you think positive you attract that into your life. Things are changing for us and Juli is a very happy child. I'm taking better care of myself and those are the important things.
