The Custers

“My husbands job is sucking the life out of him”⁣
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Sound familiar?⁣
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We were there once. He’d leave in the morning just as the girls were waking up and be home just as they were headed to bed each night. ⁣
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I could have gone on pretending like it wasn’t effecting us. I could have just shrugged my shoulders and thought “well that’s life” and gone on with my stay at home mom lifestyle. ⁣
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But each day we grew further apart, each day I missed him more and more, and every time he missed out on an event I was doing with the girls I felt guilty and sad that we weren’t together as a family. ⁣
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We finally had enough. Which brings us to where we are today. ⁣
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I haven’t been anywhere without my husband in 3 years. Seriously, not one single day. ⁣
Today I’m flying to Nebraska to visit a friend and it feels like a piece of me is missing. ⁣
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But instead of being sad, I’m feeling extremely proud. Three years ago, We saw a vision, we set goals, and we exceeded all our expectations. ⁣
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Working with him every single day, homeschooling our girls, traveling whenever and wherever we want to is a dream life. And it’s our life. ⁣
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And... some days I just pinch myself.

Time is one thing we never get back.
Why can’t time just slow down a little bit?⁣
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Cole and I were talking last night how we probably have a good 50 years left in our lives and now we feel like we’ve already lived a whole lifetime. I think grief can do that to you. ⁣
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We don’t even feel like the same family we were 3 years ago, or even 1 year ago. ⁣
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Not only are our girls just growing up so fast, but Cole and I are constantly evolving as well.⁣
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Life, marriage, business, it all looks nothing like it did 1 year ago. ⁣
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I feel like once we hit 80 years old, we’ll be able to say “wow, what an adventure that was.” ⁣
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I’m so grateful God gave me this sweet adventure loving family, a handsome adventure loving husband, and enough guts and perseverance to make all our dreams come true!

School days are pretty sweet after we get our two hours of work done in the morning. They just play and play for the rest of the day and that makes my heart so happy.

I can’t believe we got the whole fam in this photo. How cute are our dogs?! Haha we had the most relaxing day yesterday. Got a lot of laundry done, worked on some affiliate marketing things, made a yummy dinner and hung in the whirlpool bath a bit. It’s been five years that we’ve been able to enjoy our Mondays instead of dread them. That is such a gift. I’ll never forget those days when cole would leave to work from sun up to sun down Monday-Saturday. That was so hard on all of us. Working hard for this life we live now was rooted in our desire to be together all the time.