I know, you have heard that a ton of times lately. However, listening to this song tonight (July 4th) hit me like a ton of bricks. The very first few lines reflect my life... "If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life, and I had to start again, with just my children and my wife, I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today. Cause the flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away."
Many of you know that my husband has been out of work for 2.5 years now. What you may not know, is that we lost our home to foreclosure, moved into my parents AZ house, and eventually, that one had to go to short sale. My parents live on their social security and whatever odd jobs my dad does with his handy man business and we all live together renting and helping each other out.
Anyway, on to my point. I feel like I did lose everything my husband and I worked for. We are starting over. Just my husband, my kids, and my family. Where else but here in the USA could I start my own business, continue to support my family, provide for the needs of my children, keep the electricity on, feel more confident, grow personally, enrich other women's lives, enrich my own life, get the recognition I so desire, still attend kids school functions, have some fun money, make everlasting friendships, build my self up professionally, and truly say I am rebuilding my life from the ground up?
I have found great support within the Slumber Parties community. There is something there that other companies, in my experience just don't have. Something amazing happens when you put women together who are successful, want to be successful, and they all want to see each other BE successful. The positivity and the energy in a room full of Slumber Parties women is undescribeable. I am lucky to have been given the opportunity to be part of such a great company and group of women.
I know that I have not currently reached my personal and professional goals, but I have reached many milestones and road markers on the way to reaching them, each one getting me closer to my dreams. I may not be where I thought I would be at this time in my 30s, or the woman I thought I would be, but I am getting there. I am so much more than the woman I thought I would be in some cases, and I am continually going up! I'm not perfect, I am certainly not Superwoman. I am just doing my best to do right by my family, my heart and my faith.
So GOD BLESS THE USA! I know that the economic problems have hit alot of us all over the country hard, but this country was built on entrepreneurial spirit, and it is the entrepreneur that will save it again! I'm not saying that we have that great AMERICA that was born so long ago, but we do still have the American Dream. Its still alive and well, and with a little faith, and a little positivity and some elbow grease, I can make sure that my family is living our American Dream, YOU can live yours. So when I share my life with you, when I ask you do join me in doing what I do, its because I would be selfish to keep such an amazing thing to myself. It's because I love being my own boss, its because I love who I am becoming, I love being a business owner and I love that Slumber Parties has helped me get there and when I look back at my life, it will be known that it was Slumber Parties that helped save us.
(I wrote this on July 5th, 2011, but I am just now getting around to posting it)
