Working from home.

I get asked a lot how hard it is to sell thirty one and write a book while being a stay at home mom.
All I can say is it's difficult, but not for the reasons you think. I write during nap time or after she goes to bed at night. And selling thirty one is fun, I do most parties online and that is usually done once or twice a day during a time when I can see Riley is really into a toy or game.

The hard part is the no's.  The people who ignore you when your just trying to help your family. It's the times when people tell you to get a real job. Yes I could put my daughter in daycare and get a job but with the price of daycare I would be working in order to put her in daycare. I wouldn't have time with her. I wouldn't get to watch as she learns a new letter in the alphabet or a new number. This month has been the number 2 because that's how old she will be. The hardest part is when someone who always talks to you and you always thought was your friend comments negatively on something about the reason you started to work for an online company. But when you help someone reach a goal for a party or make a new friend while helping them start on a business that will help there family it is amazing and I wouldn't change it.

Then there's writing that's difficult, it's the times when I can't write, because no one feels like talking that day. Yes I hear the characters in my head. Half the time I dream the scene I'm going to write. But when you can't get the words on the page or when you can't seem to connect the scene it sucks. It's when people are rude or make disgusted faces because of the type of books you are writing. I write smut or erotic romance, yes some poeple hate it but most of those people have never read it. Have never looked beyond it at the story you are trying to tell. Writing is my outlet, some people draw or take pictures or even work out but i write. Sometimes it won't go anywhere sometimes I can get  a new chapter for my book because I have a bad day.  I love writing, I love telling stories and I hope one day everyone can read my stories and feel the love I have put into it.

So yes working from home is difficult, I have a two year old who some days doesn't nap, who can mess up the whole house in less then 20 minutes. I get ignored or told no on a daily basis. But every so often I will get a yes. I will get to help not only someone have a fun party but also help my family with bills or groceries. Some days I won't get a single word written but on that rare day I will get a full chapter of two done. But every day I get to enjoy the giggles and smiles. The excitement that comes with learning something new such as jumping. I wouldn't change my days for anything. I will take the no's along with the laughter, I will take the silence in my head along with the kisses just because. Because I love it and I hope everyone gets a chance to do what they love :)

Meet the Crazy Messy Family, They are Mine!!

Welcome to my crazy, messy life. I'm Brienne, but I go by Bri most of the time.  I'm married to my best friend Patrick. We have had a crazy journey so far. We have been married for 3 years and together for a little over 4. The first year and a half of our relationship was spend living apart. We were the online couple who traveled 8 hours to see each other every weekend. Then we went through our first deployment. Our second didn't happen until our daughter was born. As you can probably guess my husband was in the military. The navy to be specific, but now he is going to school to become a firefighter. As for me, I'm a stay at home mom, a Thirty-One consultant, and I am currently writing my own romance novel. We live a crazy life, that just got messier when we had our daughter.

 This is my little family. My daughters name is Riley, and she will be two in just a few weeks. She is on the tiny side but she is just perfect. Born at 37 weeks she only weighed 5lbs. 4oz.  due to being IUGR. Me and her spent the last month of my pregnancy alone because daddy was out at sea. We had the help of our families because I moved home. I was scared to raise my daughter alone with two big dogs. At 34 week pregnant I got told i was only measuring  32 weeks and that they wanted to do a ultra sound to find out why. At 35 weeks we went in to find out why she was small, we found out her growth had slowed to the point where they believed she wasn't getting enough nutrition. Which to this day we don't know why.   The specialist we went to see said that it would be risking her if i went past 37 weeks. so we didn't and because of this circumstance Patrick got to fly in for the week of her birth. On 11/25/13 our beautiful baby was born. and just 3 days later Patrick was gone again. He didn't get to hold her again till she was almost six months old. But despite her small start into this world she is healthy as can be, yet she is still a tiny little thing.  She is the messy, because she loves to make messes with everything from her toys or even her dinner. 

Along with this crazy kid. we have the two biggest babies, Bela (light brown) and Harley (tan brindle) They are 5 and 7, and some of the laziest dogs I have ever met. Bella is my mutt and is Riley's best friend. she puts up with everything including being jumped on. Harley on the other hand is  a pitbull and is the grumpy old man, and would rather spend his days sitting on the back porch, than playing with Riley. They are both over 60lbs and slowing down in their old age. They are lovers not fighters and I consider them my first babies. I rescued them both, and hope to continue to rescue more in the future. 

Life is hard sometimes but we make the best of it. We are all healthy and happy, and that is what really matters. No matter what struggles we face we face them together. So that is my crazy, messy family, and they are mine. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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