Where to start? If you had asked me 18 months ago what my life would be like in February 2010, I would have answered anything but our little family's current situation.
In the last year and a half, our little family has lost much. We lost our beautiful custom home to foreclosure, my husband lost not only his job, but the very industry in which he worked disappeared and he remained unemployed for 9 months. And because the very small home we just barely qualified to rent after the foreclosure of our own home also landed in foreclosure, the banks kicked us out 2 days before Christmas, two years in a row. I have many stories about not enough to eat, and crying over my precious daughter as she slept in her jacket in an unheated, uninsulated home in the dead of winter.
Never before had I known such hardship. I grew up in a middle class family - California natives. I married a beautiful successful man and never wanted for anything. A happy life.
The hardship we've had is why I had to let my fledgling clothing business wither away. My creative spirit was lost for a while. Overwhelmed by the adversity we had experienced. So what am I doing now? A year and a half later? Well, I am thankful that I still have my beautiful man by my side, and precious daughter who loves us in spite of all. I am grateful to my parents and my brother who came to our rescue many times. I am thankful for my husband's new job and a very modest roof over our heads. For enough food to keep her healthy and smiling. For heat. For a little extra money to buy some buttons and thread in the hopes of resurrecting Sofie Bell Couture.
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