As told by Kat

Beddy bawda biddah buddah

// April 14th, 2006 // John, Life, Rachel, Work

I’m feeling better and wanted to thank my online family for your support. It isn’t often that I have down days, and I despise the rare down day that I have. HotHubby was really great and gave me an encouragement card with 40 bucks in it. The card was a little lame, he wrote something sweet in it. The best part of the whole card thing was the money. How can 40 bucks NOT cheer a woman up?

We’ve been busy looking at retail office space. It’s very expensive and competitive in Colorado Springs but we both feel it is the next step for our business, mainly for his side of the business. For those that are new to my blog, HotHubby and I own “The Good Geeks” a multi-faceted business that essentially offers Computer Repair/Networking type services (HotHubby’s side) and Website/Database Development/Hosting (my side). I don’t need a store front for the work I do and manage, but having an official location would definitely bring in more business for HotHubby and set us on the path to setting up another location in another city.

This has definitely been a learning experience, both professionally and in the family sense. It is the most stressful thing I have ever done. If we were to have a “bad” few months, we’d still be responsible to feed nearly 4 kiddos, keep the cars insured and pay our mortgage.

Our children are in for the ride of their lives and will benefit immensely from the experience they will have in business, just by growing up in our family. Being a business owner is in my blood, I was practically bred for it. I know there are a lot of people that believe that professional success is about luck, but I can tell you (first hand) that the non-famous-person success of an average person is about hard work, mixed in with blood, sweat and tears.

I had to yell at HotHubby today (not yell, but express my pissedoffedness (LOL)) and basically said “As your business partner I disagree because….” and then I said “If you still disagree with your business partner, come home and your wife will kick your ass.” A disagreement at work can easily be continued into a disagreement at home in the marriage but we are pretty good about separating the two. I know most people believe we are truly crazy for working together (I hear “I could never work with my husband” all the time)… but I can’t say there is another person on this earth that I would rather work with. That’s not true. I’d love to work with my children, in any possible way that I am able.

I look back on the time when HotHubby was working in retail and how miserable we both were, I feel nearly stupid for not finding a way to convince him sooner to do this (and believe me, I tried). I am not quite sure where we are headed, but I know that we’ll have fun getting there.

***Switching Gears***
I have been having a really hard time dealing with SuperGlue (6yo next month) and her attitude and behavior. Until she turned 5ish, she was the sweetest kid who generally never had to be spoken to. She has gone haywire. I’ve been in touch with many ladies from my very original expecting board and they assure me that it is totally normal. I’ve been having a hard time coping with her and her crappy behavior, while keeping myself in check. I can be prone to yelling when pushed to the limit. I’m trying to stick with positive and gentle discipline but I am just not getting through to her. The child is brilliant, and gorgeous and STUBBORN. Where the hell did she get that from, I wonder? (Insert sarcastic smiley). We had multiple incidents today as we do everyday… but before she went to bed I made sure to tell her that regardless of her actions, I still really love her and that “we will get through this together.” I feel really good about taking the time out to tell her I love her and to hug her. We are on a TV ban until things get better as I am convinced that TV is a huge source of our difficulties. Engaging her mind more is what will get us out of this rut. I just want my SuperGlue back!

***Switching Gears***

Betty bought a bit of butter
But she found the butter bitter
So she bought a bit of better butter
To make the bitter butter better!