And Then There Were 4...
Well life as I had grown accustomed to over the past 3.5 years officially changed on September 16th, 2013...for the better of course, with a dash of more chaos. On September 16th, my baby girl was born and so was a new kind of mommy, the working mommy of two children under 5 kind. Throughout my pregnancy my thought process was basically, "I will have my baby girl and life as it was before will continue as normal after she gets here and all settled", boy was I wrong. My life as a wife + mother + entrepreneur changed in a whole new way and I have had to find a way to make our new life work as it had before. In terms of our life the day to day aspects have all remained the same the only difference being the juggling of this new bundle of pink joy into our already crazy lives. We all have been forced to change and grow in our own new ways - my husband has had to take on more responsibility of our son and still manage to bond with his new daughter; my son has had to take a more individual responsibility of himself, along with sharing some once "only child" roles with his new little sister; and I have had to learn how to take care of everything as before while caring for two children, rather than one. It's been four weeks and I still am trying to figure it all out, although I don't considered myself changed by this experience from in terms of the person I was before, I have made the decison to redefine myself. I fought this whole idea intially because I really had the expectation that everything would continue as normal but I have come to realize that is not the case and that is not a bad thing either. So please feel free to join along with me on my journey of a mother + entrepreneur redefined, I would love to hear what you have learned on your journey that may be helpful to me and other moms out there who are searching for a community of like minded women who are trying to keep up with the many demands that get come our way!
A Little About Mother + Entrepreneur Redefined
Opening and running a start up business is hard; adding a franchise business to it is difficult; starting a family and throwing one child in the mix is challenging; popping out a second child 3.5 years later is chaotic and making the decision to start expanding my business into other areas is utter insanity but that is the beauty of entrepreneurship in my opinion, if you take advantage of those little gems of awesomeness above the more than not very diffcult and challenging aspects of owning your own business, you may just figure out a way to REDEFINE yourself and devise a plan that makes all that things you love about work, life, family and being a mommy possible.
This blog has is a NO TOPICS OFF LIMITS zone. It's been created as a personal journey as well as place for others who have or are in the process of RE-DEFINING themselves as a woman, mom, wife, friend, entrepreneur or whatever personal RE-DEFINING aspect it is you wanting to acheive.
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