Happy Fourth of July!
It’s been quite a while since we wrote our very first blog post and tried to launch our blog! We got a kick of creativity and inspiration during the Covid-19 quarantine of 2020 and tried to run with it. The bummer is that shortly after, life got in the way. So I guess that’s what this post is all about – what have we been doing, where have we been living and working, and how has that brought us back to the blog now??
Long Story Short…
- Hosted our micro wedding at my parent’s house on July 25th, 2020
- Canceled our honeymoon
- Moved into a third-floor apartment in Carol Stream, IL
- I worked at Starbucks from September – February
- Tyler worked with Thrivent Financial from June – October then worked a temporary position doing accounting
- I got a long-term substitute teaching job at a school 1.5 hours north and accepted it (February)
- Made the decision to go vegan to nourish our bodies better and to speak out against the animal farming industry
- Tyler got a remote position as a property accountant (February)
- We moved to a house in Antioch, IL in April to be closer to my work
- Tyler’s remote job was detrimental to his mental health so he quit and started working at the Twin Lakes Country Club in Twin Lakes, WI (May)
- I finished my time at the elementary school (June) and started working full-time at the Twin Lakes Country Club with Tyler Greene
- Now we work together at the golf course and dream of our next big step!
WOOOOOWHEEEEE – that is a lot of stuff. SO many changes to navigate and grow through together in the past year. We have had a hell of a time working through the difficulties to find the good and watch God work on our behalf.
Personally, I could not be more thankful for the craziness that was our last 11 months. Even though we never really saw the changes coming and never really felt financially stable, we have learned to love and support one another above money and the expectations others place on us and our marriage. We have learned that we can and should do what is best for us because this is our life! We have worked hard, cried, sweat, laughed, and dreamed of how we want to change this life of ours for good.
This is where we are now…
- Living in a 700sq.ft two-bedroom house Working nearly opposite schedules at the golf course (but playing lots of free golf)
- I have accepted a full-time middle school teaching job for next year to help us save lots of money
- Finally going on our honeymoon to Hawaii in August
- Officially saving towards buying a rig to convert and travel the world hopefully within the next year and a half
- Balancing time with work, family, and each other
- Figuring out how to eat ethically sourced food without breaking the bank
- Building our remote streams of income to help support our life on the road Planning to change our normal – we want to WORK TO LIVE not live to work!
So there you go! Now you know where we’ve been, where we are going, and hopefully, you’ll want to follow along on this journey of ours! We are spending all of our free time working on cultivating our different ideas for life on the road and will be sharing and updating you every step of the way! We hope that this blog is informative and fun for you to read! Maybe it will even change the way you look at your own life – maybe not and that’s okay! We’ve spent years living the way we thought we were supposed to live because that’s what everyone does – not anymore! Let’s do this thing!!
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