Mom Unplugged

A Fork in the Road

Nov 23, 2007 Unplugged Moments

You know having to deal with reality can be a difficult thing to do. I had to look in a mirror over the past few weeks and deal with some stuff.

• I am in debt about $3000 and need to get those debts paid off.
• My husband works hard to make our home a good home and help me with my business. However Vegan Family Living is still not as profitable as it should be and I know that will take time.
• I have many skills that I have allowed to stay in the background while I got my business off the ground.
• I need to make extra income because the income from VFL trickles and that does not pay a bill or help with the rent when we really need it. My husband is an electrical contractor sometimes we are hurting for money while we wait on a check or if he has to pay his employees. That is not good. Especially when I can help out.
• Being a homeschool mom is wonderful thing and it is what I love doing because I am able to give my kids a good sound education, but that still does not pay the bills. However, God wants me home and so I obey.
• I have been avoiding this for some time now.
• I hate to see my children suffer when there is more I can do to help out.

So I searched, prayed and faced the truth. I gotta get a job. How do I do that home, though, without going crazy.

I was at a fork in the road. So I prayed and asked God what to do. After all He is the on who told me to stay home. So He had to have the answer..right? I was surely not seeing a way.

Well I was sitting in the tub and as usual God spoke to me like He always does when I am in the bathroom. What He said threw me but I see the picture now.

I spoke with my good friends Shelley Valasek author of The Ruby Legacy, and Angelia L. White, publisher of Hope for Women about what I heard God tell me. The both agreed that I can do it, plus Shelley will be a part of the vision.

So I am working on Unique Design VA Services. I already do a little work to help Christian Women in business as well as speakers, authors, and writers. So what I am going to do is offer my services on a more full scale level.

Then I asked God what do I do to avoid burnout? Do I give up Vegan Family Living? Do I send my boys off to school in Chicago where the education system is not that good?

What did God tell me?

I can do it with a little help from my friends. Then He gave me the plan. Contract out services to my friends who work in the various fields of services that Christians in business need.

I took me 1 day to pull the plan together, get a few smart women involved, and to get my first client. Now if that is not God I don’t know what is.

I already know it will not be a permanent thing and God has shown me who I will pass the torch to once Vegan Family Living start showing a workable profit. I think that person knows who she is but because of her current circumstances she just can’t devote all the time, but she can help.

So to God be the glory!

Unique Design VA Services will go live in January 2008.