Weekend recap

Thought of the day:

Why do we yell at our kids NOT to pick the flowers...Oh, but it is a dandelion...well that is OK then?? To them, they are ALL flowers!! I mean, really!!

Thank you all for your great supportive comments about the SIL wedding situation. I was really starting to think I was the crazy irrational one here who didn't understand the importance of certain things to a bride on her wedding day!! You all made me feel sain again.

My mom and her hubby did RSVP no, but I told my MIL and SIL that they can do whatever they want because we are going to play the whole night by ear. If they want to pay for two extra meals "just in case" they do stay with Miss J, then that is up to them. In my opinion (and my DH and mother and her husbands opinion), we are all going to show up for cocktail hour, get pictures taken, and when dinner starts to be served, my mom, her hubby and Miss J will skedaddle. The bride won't even know...so that is that. No more discussion on this issue...PLEASE!! I am exhausted thinking about it and talking about it and if another word comes up about it I am going to SCREAM!!

OK, I am going to SCREAM anyway because just being around MIL and SIL lately is exhausting me. They are both on edge and everything that is said to them or they say comes out with this elevated pitch that just is like having daggers thrown at you. I am tired of being around them, even for a couple of hours, because I start to feel like I did something wrong or said something wrong when I know they aren't mad at me...but the act like they are. So I just keep my mouth shut about EVERYTHING and pray for this next month to pass...fast.

Isn't that a horrible thing to say...but it is the truth. I am exhausted just from spending 3-hours at my MIL house on Saturday. I left there feeling so edgy and irritated about...nothing!! Just about life and the little weed that was growing next to my car...really, about nothing. But they rubbed off on me. Gosh...another 3-weekends!!

So this weekend was productive on the side of "there is hope and opportunity in the future", not in the productive means of actually getting anything tangible done.

We had a marketing training course for DH's continuing ed for Home Inspection. That was energizing...I really think we have some groundwork covered that we can start building and acting on some "marketing" things for his business. I just wanted to start doing all of the things right away...but I know we need to get them down on paper first...plus make some time for it.

Then Sunday we met with a woman and her daughter from church who have been doing this training/business kind of thing which involves housing investments and flipping and things of that nature. DH went to a seminar awhile back about it and he was very interested, then had me come to a class about it...and I just felt like it was too good to be true. So we decided to meet with friends from church (thinking we could all be open and honest about the process rather than talking to some stranger sales person). It was interesting.

Ultimately, they obviously do want to "recruit" us to join the training and business. But we are in no position right now to pay for more schooling or start buying houses to flip. Right...but the thought came across all of our minds that maybe we could work together like a professional business relationship. They are going to be buying houses to work on, flip, rent, whatever...well they will need someone to help work on the houses, to help inspect the houses, to help advise them what problems are too big to overcome kind of thing...and gee...doesn't DH have all of those qualifications right now? Wouldn't that be a great opportunity for both of our situations. And heck, we aren't even looking to charge like a million dollars to do these things...the thought is that DH would do them (at least the first handful of them) at below market prices so that he could build a good reputation with them and they could get things swinging on their end...then see how things work from there.

I thought it was brilliant...but DH was still a little weary on it, and I don't know why. He has been dragging his feet on some of this stuff, and I don't know why. I think it is the fear of failure...again. Whenever he sees something that could work out or be great potential, he hesitates, like he is afraid it IS going to work out and he MAY make money at it. But yet, something like housing investments seems good to him. Wahhhh, spending a lot of money you don't have for the chance that the market may pick up soon and take off and you could make $50K on a flip...I don't get that. To me, right now, that is more chance to fail than working with something you already have (home inspection license, company name, business cards, potential). I get frustrated trying to understand his thinking sometimes.

But, whatever the case, we are going to work on a marketing strategy for his business in Home Inspection, and we are going to work on a proposal for our two lady friends from church (who have the equity and $$ right now to risk in this type of market).

Pray for us...that this will either open up with clear roads ahead, or that the door will obviously shut. I feel really good about this direction, I just need DH to feel good about it and step up to the plate and start taking some initiative to work toward it (sometimes he ends up waiting and relying on me to do these things when I have a full time job and he is home all day).

So that is life right now in a nutshell!! Thanks for your prayers and suggestions and help lately!!