February 22nd, 2012 
Tracy 
As the sun is just starting to come up over the horizon to burn off the thick layer of fog that is surrounding us this morning I can’t help but daydream of the days ahead.
I have been working my self into a work coma trying to hold onto my small marketing/design business and work full-time at the same time! At the beginning of the year hubby put his foot down and has made me choose one job. After much consideration and weighing all odds I have finally choose to give up the full-time job and concentrate on our homestead and my business again.
The steady pay-check was what was making is so hard even though I knew it was not working into our long-term goals of having me at home again and living on one pay-check. Can we live on one-paycheck again? On paper it works but you know it never works like it does on paper and I know I will still have to contribute to our household budget but I know we can make this work.
I am fortunate that my full time job can be split and I will be able to sub-contract some of that job out to my personal business. I will still need to go into the office a day a week but one day verses 4 or 5 days is so much better.
I am already starting the transition by building back up my business while I give a very lengthy 2 month notice at work. This is our busy season and they have been so good to me I am giving them plenty of notice to find a replacement for me.
So back to me day-dreaming of days ahead:
- No getting up at 4 a.m. to work on clients before my full time job day begins
- No spending $75 a week in gas to get back and forth to work each day
- Oh what I will save on lunches and stops on my way home!
- Being home to take care of the garden and not watching it scorch away when I have no time to water it
- No cramming a weeks worth of canning into the weekends
- But the biggest of all is being able to see my hubby more and not just in passing since his cray schedule and my crazy work schedule never matched up
I feel like a big weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am anxious to get started on my next chapter in “Our Simple Life.”
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Oh how exciting for you! I know exactly what you mean by watching the garden suffer and cramming a week’s worth of stuff into a weekend.
My hubby & I made that difficult decision over a year ago to live off one income in these scary economic times but we are so happy we did. Granted, we’ve made some sacrifices along the way, but it’s SO worth it! I love being a homemaker!
Congrats and I hope you’re able to get your small business more profitable by the end of this year!
I’m SO happy for you! You may not have as much money until your business picks up, but your quality of life will improve exponentially! God will find a way to make it all work out for you. No worries…