I tried to express something similar here once about my gratitude for my education, and the ways God has used that to help make me a better mother and bring me closer to my husband. Because of academia, I’ve been able to help my husband in many ways, and he has helped me. We’ve written articles together, he helped edit my dissertation, I helped edit his book chapter. We sit in coffee shops together (or used to before our toddlers got quite so active, lol!), read books, and talk about them. That working-together-ness has been such a joy in our relationship, and it’s wonderful to hear about something similar in your relationship with your husband.

Oh how I would love to have my hubby home more. What a blessing that God has blessed y’all with your vision to start a wedding business. I know GOd will richly bless you.

I do believe things come in seasons. I hope one day God will open doors for us to have a season where our family can spend more time together through out the day. Right now though, my husband “call and ministry” is as a pilot in the military. Due to that he spends a lot of time coming back and forth from war. Since we haven’t felt God to move us out of this season both of us often wonder what God has in store for our Family when he moves him out of this career. Right now though we know GOd is using our Family so for now I am just praying us through the next 7 years so he can retire with 30 years of Service.

Blessins to you and your Family.

WW, is the catering side new to you all, or is it just now growing? I knew you were hosting weddings at your venue, but I didn’t know you were your own catering vendor. That’s terrific.

However, sometimes it’s hard to see that lovely end result, because for us this is a long, hard process. My husband has essentially been working more than two full-time jobs in trying to provide for us while getting his investments to the point of being able to provide. And frankly, he’s not one to be content hanging around the home much. He wants to be off doing something (something useful, in his mind, and that doesn’t include family outings, picnics, quiet evenings at home…), out and about, and he doesnt’ want/need me to help him. He wants me keeping the home fires burning, homeschooling, caring for our children (and I am happy to do that!). But even when he is 100% self employed, poor me isn’t going to see that much of him. I’m hopeful that our boys will, as they get older and can be helpful in the work he does.

I love the ideal, but I’m not sure quite how it works out for those of us married to workaholics. Dh says his grandpa never quit working and even when he was old disabled he would sit in his banana tree patch and weed all afternoon, and dh wants to be just like that, never quit working until the moment he takes his last breath.

My girls dance studio also has a woman who is assigned ‘alterations’, so anyone from the dance studio who cant do them themselves, is sent to her. Think outside the box and the jobs will come.

Tell Ben not to be discouraged…a few words from famous entrepreneurs for Ben:

“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.” -Sam Walton

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn’t mean it’s useless….”

“Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward…” -Thomas Edison