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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Hello, Monday...

“God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.”

-Reggie White

-Chester W. Nimitz

Good morning! These are two quotes that just stuck out to me today. 






Update on life...

It has been too long since I have written. I decided to look at my FB page for this blog and realized about the time I quit writing was the time my family's lives as we knew it had come to a stand still. Our family business had shut down with no notice and all of the sudden, we were without an income. Just like that. I was a Full Time Realtor and my husband was jobless. If any of you are familiar with Real Estate then you know you get paid when a home closes. It is not a guaranteed income. I had just decided to become a Full Time Agent in February, one month before my husband unexpectedly lost his job. So of course it would be months before I received a pay day. What were we going to do?!? I had been doing so well in Real Estate, going NON STOP and building my business. The day I got the call my husband and so many other of my family members had lost their job...I froze. For almost 2 weeks to a month I was off my game and fell behind in my business. Life as we knew it was over.

My husband was a manager receiving a salaried wage and was working a couple of nights a week for a restaurant. Cooking is his passion. Now all we had was his 3 nights a week at the restaurant. Luckily, his boss is like family and made him full time. But it was less than half of what we were making a month. We took a HUGE pay cut. Plus, the worst part, we only get to spend time together on Sunday as opposed to every evening and every weekend.

We have come a long way in 6 months. Life is far different from what we would have hoped, but it is a good life. I am still in Real Estate full time and my husband is still at the restaurant full time. I am one sale away from being a MILLION DOLLAR PRODUCER!!! ( NO, I have not earned a MILLION dollars..FAR from it.) I have just sold a MILLION DOLLARS worth of homes. I have made enough to make sure our bills are paid each month, but that is it. We no longer eat out or shop for things we want anymore. We only buy what we NEED. I have slowly been learning how to MAKE certain necessities, like body wash, face wash, and make-up, etc, in order to save money. We are becoming more savvy when it comes to groceries.

We are still managing to allow our daughter to participate in cheer and pay for our son to be in Pre-School. We have gained quite the keen eye for snagging deals at yard sales. I no longer care about having the hottest new make up (heck I wish I did not require make up at all...bad acne!) I cringe when I see the grocery bill. Having little funds sure has made me look at finances. I wish I could kick my previous self and realize how I was pissing away money we could desperately use now. But the truth is..I can't. All I can do is make sure we are doing okay now.

I love Real Estate. It is a wonderful career that allows me to meet so many people and learn so many new things daily. I am still hanging in there because I refuse to be stuck in a career I hate. I may not have a regular pay check, but I enjoy going to work everyday. My husband enjoys his job. I hope one day we can make his dream of running his own restaurant come true.

My kids are doing great! Thankfully we were already active in a wonderful church when all this chaos happened or we probably would not have made it though. They have been a rock for us. God is so good. We may not like every step of our journey, but in the end we realize it could not have happened any other way. We are stronger for it.

So, I hope you can see that if we can come back from rock bottom, you can, too. It will NOT be easy. But it will be worth it.

Until next time my readers....

God Bless,
Audrey