I immersed myself in stay-at-home mom-dom. We had recently moved to a new town and I had no friends, so I joined the local MOMS Club and immediately began taking on responsibilities. I designed our chapter’s web site, did the layout for the monthly newsletter. Soon I was V.P., and the next year, President.
I began to seek out other homeschoolers by searching online. I met Rebecca and we founded our own homeschooling group that is now 5 years old and nearly 70 members strong.
And I still bounced around some various part-time jobs.
As you can see, even though I didn’t “work” anymore, I still craved “work.”
Mine is a family of ambitious self-starters. My Dad has his own business. My Mom ran a day care business for a number of years. My husband and both his parents own their own businesses. The entrepreneurial spirit surrounds me, and it has been extremely difficult to leave that behind. It has become more and more apparent that I cannot let that part of me lay dormant.
In March 2005 I started this blog with the intent of posting all the wonderful activities we do as a homeschooling family, and sharing our lives with far-away family and friends. My ulterior motive was to develop an awe-inspiring resource for homeschoolers everywhere! And make money! And be loved and worshipped by all! I wanted FitnessLink again…
What really happened? I discovered some things about myself that I simply did not want to admit.
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Great story! It is one that makes me think of my past ten years and what I want to be when I grow up. LOL
This is sort of where I am at–not that I started in the same place you did or that our lives remotely resemble one anothers LOL but I can relate and find myself in similar places as you emotionally and intellectually.
Great story!
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