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The road to starting my own blog started a little over two years ago. I was pregnant with a baby boy. My husband and I lived in Lexington, KY. We had a nice apartment, decent cars and respectable jobs. Everything you think a young couple expecting should have. I knew I wanted to be a stay at home mom and had prayed every day that God would make a way for that to happen. But when I was 34 weeks pregnant I got a call from my husband that he felt like he needed to leave his job.
Needless to say, we were both scared but knew that he couldn’t stay in the situation any longer. My husband decided to make a career change and our son came 4 weeks early. Our well-laid plans were falling apart quickly. We tried to make it work in KY but soon moved to North Carolina (our home state) to start over. What I thought was the worst thing that could ever happen to us turned out to be the greatest blessing.
Because of my husband quitting his job and us moving home he has a career he enjoys where he is home for supper and even Christmas. None of those things could have happened before. I am a stay at home mom and we are living debt free.
We have changed a lot as people but all for the better. We do make sacrifices but it is all worth it. We live in the country now, our car is a practical Toyota, we heat our house with a wood stove in the winter and we garden. I’ve learned to sew in this time and love trying any DIY project I can, both frugal and fruitful. That’s where the blog comes in. I realized I wanted a place to not only tell our story of a better life, but a place to journal what a one income, DIY family can accomplish. After months of trying to talk myself out of starting one, here we are. I hope you will enjoy getting to know us.
Rachel (I Love My Disorganized Life)
What courage to leave the familiar and adventure into the unknown! Can’t even tell you how many times we’ve done that. Congrats!