The American Dream

Like most Americans, my family carries some debt. Like most Americans, I’m a little fluffier than I’d like to be. Like most Americans, my husband and I have been plugging our way through life, working and working but seeing little improvement in our situation. Just maintaining the status quo.

Is this The American Dream? I don’t think so.

I want to feel better about my overall health.

I want to feel better about my long-term financial future. 

I want to provide the things that my family needs. Raising kids is expensive! Raising kids who are involved in various activities is really expensive! 

I want to take my family on vacations. I want my kids to see more of our relatives who live far away. 

I want to be able to say yes more often.

The bottom line is that I want to live healthier and wealthier. From what I have seen occur in the lives of my friends, and what I have begun to experience in my own life, I am confident that Plexus can help me achieve both of those things.

Plexus asks the question: What if this could change everything? I believe that it can, and I intend to find out for certain.

I invite you to follow along with my journey. Feel free to watch and cheer me on, but I would really love for you to join me! I’m ready to change everything… are you?

xo,

C

Five Golden Years

I think it's funny that my last post was about a low time, and waiting expectantly for it to end. I've been missing the blogging world for quite a while, thinking about and mentally writing things that I wanted to post. But never actually doing it.

The past five years have been a rollercoaster of emotion, full of loss and gain. My Grandmother passed away just days after we finalized the adoption of our youngest son. I tore my ACL. Our dog Liberty Belle died. We've had neighborhood friends move away, and we've fallen in love with the new ones who moved in. Our next-door neighbors slowly withdrew, and then suddenly became aggressively hateful and hostile. Words cannot express how difficult it is to share a fence with people who treat your family so badly.

The strain of these difficult transitions cost me two important friendships: one that was my fault and one that wasn't. We've met some amazing people and built new relationships during this time as well. I guess that's the ebb and flow of life.

We've taken some wonderful vacations, with and without our children. Though marriage isn't easy, that's the one area of my life that hasn't waivered. These five years have been middle school years, full of highs and lows in parenting. But every step with children is an experience that will teach them and mold them into the people God created them to be.

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." - Romans 8:28

"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." - Psalm 147:3

These haven't been golden years in the way that one might initially think, but rather that I feel as though I've been put through the fire.

Gold is refined through a process involving high heat and caustic chemicals; separating the impurities and imperfections for the good of improvement. Temporary destruction for the promise of the beauty that remains.

I've been wrecked and rebuilt in these years, over and over. Melted and mended. I've experienced frustration, pain, and heartbreak, and every bit of it has helped shape me into something better.

xo,
C