I’m back! Did you miss me? I missed you!!!
Since I wrote last my life has done a complete flip flop-lol.
Part of the craziness I was prepared for and had made arrangements to work through it, and then another challenge (yet miracle) came along.
Every year in July and August I donate a lot of time working on props and painting sets for the Children’s Musical Theater in Cedar City. I love it! My kids are in the production, so I get to spend time with them, but I also get to share my other crafty talents and abilities. I love all 200 of the kids (yes 200, that’s not a typo) and how our institution helps build confidence in children and teens. I’m so honored to be a part of it!
However, it does take A LOT of time during those months. So I had prepared some extra blog posts to carry me through those extra weeks.
What I wasn’t expecting is that my husband would also get THAT job he has been searching for, for years, and our family would also be preparing to move.
At that point, I knew something had to go for a time, so the blog got put on the back burner as well as the ‘relationships course’ I was working on creating.
The only things I did for two months (12 hours a day) was work on props and sets, and prep, fix and paint my home so it would be ready to sell.
I was also experiencing an overwhelming amount of emotions ranging from excitement, and gratitude to sadness and overwhelm.
I knew I would be leaving my best friends at the children’s theater and that I’d miss them so much! I also knew that, moving or not, I was their prop director and someone had to work on props and paint sets-which is often overwhelming by itself. I was trying to figure out if I should send my kids to school in Cedar or if our house would sell quickly and I could just start them in our new town. I was playing the “single mom” game because my husband was already working at the new job and joining us on the weekends, and the house had to stay spotless so it could be “shown” at any time. It was crazy!
A week or so after our big children’s theater production was over we sold our home and I immediately started packing boxes (do you know how emotionally and mentally exhausting it is to pack your stuff? wow)
And, I still didn’t have a home to move into. Thankfully, my in-laws basement was an option for a few weeks while we continued to search for the right home. Not ideal, but a roof over our heads. Living with my in-laws (though wonderful people) was very difficult for me. It was the last bit of crazy turbulence before the amazing blessings and it was a rocky ride.
After getting the kids settled in their new schools, I started a serious house hunt. With the housing market where it currently is, it was a discouraging process, to say the least. However, I just KNEW, that the time had come for all the blessings we had been hoping for where right around the corner. I felt it and was determined to hold on until it showed up.
We had been envisioning our perfect home and the most wonderful job for my husband, with great pay, for so long. Sometimes we became discouraged, but in the end, we choose to “keep believing” anyway.
Now I’m living in that beautiful home and my husband is loving his job, with great pay. I am in awe at the great blessings of the Lord. All the principles I had been learning and practicing about universal laws, nature’s laws and God’s laws- they really do work, whether you are aware of them or not. I’ve seen them work before, but these last six months have been the biggest testimony builder for me.
We have been organizing our home, making new friends, looking for opportunities to serve in the community here, etc. My kids have been looking for ways to get involved, and finding their place here (lots of ninja coaching going on with my kids). All of this has been wonderful; emotionally and mentally challenging for sure, but full of many miracles stories.
And… I’m excited to share pieces of that journey with you in the blog posts following this. I’ll share gold nuggets of information along the way that you can use to bring great miracles into your life as well.
Now that I feel a little more settled I started working on my coaching business again… and I’m excited to announce the “Love Your Relationships” coaching program is finally ready for you! This is the coaching program I was inspired to bring people who would like to improve their family relationships. If you are done yelling at your kids, arguing with your teenagers, or being resentful of your husband, this program is for you!
This has been my journey as well. In fact, practicing the principles I will teach you is what allowed me to weather this last six months with relative ease and put very little strain on my relationships. Despite the dramatic change, our relationships are thriving!
My kids come to me with their struggles (new school, new friends, new everything) and we work through them with love and compassion (even the teenagers). No yelling! My husband and I are filled with honor and respect for one another, we trust each other more, and it’s amazing!
You can have these kinds of relationships as well! It is within your reach. Click HERE to learn more.
So… that’s where I have been the last six months–transitioning! It has been a crazy, but wonderful experience and I’m excited to share some of those with you, so stay tuned for more.
PS If you would like to have a FREE 20 minute mini session with me click HERE to sign up for a time.