OMGosh She's ALIVVVE {{lol}}

Well I just wanted to post what my DH gave me this Valentines Day. We have just had one challenge after another and they just keep stretching us to GROW every time.

The latest thing is that for the second time in less than 9 months he was "laid-off". Both companies (med-lg) said it was due to not enough money coming in to pay his salary... It's amazing that for 20+ years each that neither of us had ever been fired or laid-off and then for this to happen twice in less than a year. But it's been a "good" thing in more ways than not.

We decided after this last time in early January to Go For It!!! out on our own. DH has been in the Computer repair industry for almost 18 years now... and specializes in Network Admin... but is well versed and experienced in many areas software & hardware related... forgive me if I don't use the exact terminology... as my shop talk is more in layman's terms with him... Anyhoo -- we are now doing this completely all on our own... at least for a while to see if it works for us. Because it's basically a bunch of "crap" when they say there's not enough work. My DH stayed busy 8-10 hours a day... 5 days a week... working for them... On ecompany he was with over 5 years... they just got tired of paying him what he wanted which was probably only 1/2 of what he was worth. He was always fixing the newer less experienced guys mistakes or answering questions for them while working on another job... and getting treated like an employee.

So, this time I finally encouraged him to try to be the employer for a while and he's giving it a GOOD solid go. He hasn't been smacked-down busy but he's been keeping not too far under his regular "salary" coming in. So, we are "dreaming" that he can GET busy... and maybe we can get ahead and stay debt free without going under... or living week-to-week the rest of our lives.

It's exhilarating and "what are we doing" scary all at the same time... but If we don't try we'd Never know, right? And we'd always say "What If?" so, we're gonna take away the what ifs and brave the fire!

So, all that to say -- since DH has a little more "Free" time on his hands... and we're trying to save money right now... he made my Valentine's Day Card this year using my paper scrap supplies. And ALL I can say is WOW!!! He has always been very creative and artistic... and tried to make things for me(more when we were dating the first 2 years) but even after we got married... So I have several gifts like this. But I was so impressed that he apparently pays attention to all the things I told him about in my scrap room... embossers, cuttlebug, quickutz... lol... because This below is the result of him all alone in my scrap room for part of the day on Valentine's Day. (click on photos to enlarge)

- Front - - Back -

- Inside -


Now, how lucky am I? He also did some much needed work on my PC for my digi-scrapping! When you're married to a computer guy, it's harder than you think to get him to actually work on his own PC's {{{lol}}} He made me pancakes for breakfast... a sandwich & soup for lunch... & shrimp primavera and wine for dinner. And we played cards and goofed off the rest of the day... It was a fantastic day!!!

Well, that's it for today... I just wanted to brag on him a little. ;-)
Blessings!
Shawna