Comments on: Loving Every Minute http://redecorate.com/blog/2008/06/loving-every-minute/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:19:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Lauri http://redecorate.com/blog/2008/06/loving-every-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Lauri Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:00:02 +0000 http://redecorate.com/blog/?p=28#comment-428 Kim, Hello, Thank you for sharing your inspiring story and congratulations on the birth of your daughter! How wonderful that you are consciously choosing your path and living fully and happily, instead of passively. It sounds as though you have a terrific, supportive husband and that your daughter will have an excellent role-model in you. Congratulations, also, on becoming a member of the Interior Refiners Network. This will be a pivotal step in your career - I look forward to seeing you at this year's IRN Conference. (Check out the "Mom's Club" at the IRN Information Center.) Kim, Hello,
Thank you for sharing your inspiring story and congratulations on the birth of your daughter!
How wonderful that you are consciously choosing your path and living fully and happily, instead of passively.
It sounds as though you have a terrific, supportive husband and that your daughter will have an excellent role-model in you.
Congratulations, also, on becoming a member of the Interior Refiners Network. This will be a pivotal step in your career - I look forward to seeing you at this year’s IRN Conference. (Check out the “Mom’s Club” at the IRN Information Center.)

]]> By: Kim Woodhouse http://redecorate.com/blog/2008/06/loving-every-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Kim Woodhouse Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:06:03 +0000 http://redecorate.com/blog/?p=28#comment-399 Hi Lauri: Thanks for this post. It touched me and I wanted you to know. I took the Use What You Have training last July in NYC and loved every minute of it. It was a blast... and I remember thinking throughout the week... "You mean people will PAY me to do this???" I was hooked. ...And then life happened. I got home to CA after the training and started to feel queasy. I was pregnant! Fast forward a year and a month - I am the very proud mama of a baby girl who is now 5 months old. After she was born I took a maternity leave from my boring (but well paying) job and when it came time to go back I couldn't do it. Then I got laid off at the end of June (hooray!) and decided I would get another job in September. So, July came and I started looking for jobs. I had a few interviews and I even got a job offer. And I turned it down. Something didn't feel "right." Last weekend my husband and I went on our first date since our daughter's birth. Over lunch he told me he was going to buy me a business license for my refining business as a birthday present... he wanted to know whether I would be upset. He didn't want to push me, but he knew that this was what I wanted to do. Was I upset?Quite the contrary. My heart soared and a big smile crossed my face. This felt "right." We both knew it was time to pick up where I left off last July. We spent the rest of our date planning my business and we had a blast. I loved Tim Russert too and was so so sad to hear that he had died. Everytime life reminds me that we aren't here for long I get a little pang in my chest, "Why haven't I started to live my creative life yet? Why haven't I started my own business?" Fear. Well, I'm putting the fear aside. Your post was insiring and I feel like life has been showing me inspiration all over the place, as if it is pushing me towards my destiny. If only I will listen! Life has showed me inspriation before, but I have taken the safe and boring road. Well, not anymore. I want to be proud of me and my life. I want my husband and daughter to be proud of me too. Last Sunday night I wrote on my mirror: Do. The. Work. Period. Yesterday, I paid my dues to become a member of the IRN, found your blog and signed up for the October Conference. I'm doing it this time. And so far I have never been happier. Hi Lauri:
Thanks for this post. It touched me and I wanted you to know.

I took the Use What You Have training last July in NYC and loved every minute of it. It was a blast… and I remember thinking throughout the week… “You mean people will PAY me to do this???” I was hooked. …And then life happened. I got home to CA after the training and started to feel queasy. I was pregnant! Fast forward a year and a month - I am the very proud mama of a baby girl who is now 5 months old. After she was born I took a maternity leave from my boring (but well paying) job and when it came time to go back I couldn’t do it. Then I got laid off at the end of June (hooray!) and decided I would get another job in September. So, July came and I started looking for jobs. I had a few interviews and I even got a job offer. And I turned it down. Something didn’t feel “right.”

Last weekend my husband and I went on our first date since our daughter’s birth. Over lunch he told me he was going to buy me a business license for my refining business as a birthday present… he wanted to know whether I would be upset. He didn’t want to push me, but he knew that this was what I wanted to do. Was I upset?Quite the contrary. My heart soared and a big smile crossed my face. This felt “right.” We both knew it was time to pick up where I left off last July. We spent the rest of our date planning my business and we had a blast.

I loved Tim Russert too and was so so sad to hear that he had died. Everytime life reminds me that we aren’t here for long I get a little pang in my chest, “Why haven’t I started to live my creative life yet? Why haven’t I started my own business?” Fear. Well, I’m putting the fear aside. Your post was insiring and I feel like life has been showing me inspiration all over the place, as if it is pushing me towards my destiny. If only I will listen! Life has showed me inspriation before, but I have taken the safe and boring road. Well, not anymore. I want to be proud of me and my life. I want my husband and daughter to be proud of me too. Last Sunday night I wrote on my mirror: Do. The. Work. Period. Yesterday, I paid my dues to become a member of the IRN, found your blog and signed up for the October Conference. I’m doing it this time. And so far I have never been happier.

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