Oily Beginnings!

In the Fall of 2016, I did something in my marriage that I had never done before and before I get into that, let me give you the back story. We were married in the middle of monsoon in the Fall of 2015 and while that seemed crazy, the crazy has never really stopped. In our first year of married life together, we found out we were pregnant 3 months to the day from saying "I Do". SURPRISE! We then went from 2 decent incomes to 1 as I had to quit my "dream job" because the kind of work I was doing was killing our newly married relationship. We bought a fixer upper house thinking we were Chip and Joanna Gaines which, come on, no can be them really but THEM. We had a beautiful little boy after 30 hours of hard natural labor that resulted in an emergency c-section, followed by emergency gallbladder surgery only 3 weeks later. To say it had been a crazy year was an understatement. Whatever book that says the first year of marriage is the hardest, Andrew and I's picture is listed there as example.  My poor heart, body, mind and soul, it had gone through the ringer and needed something. I didn't know what, but it needed it. So I did something drastic, and it's laughable, but not exactly what you would think for someone that has had such a rough year. The sweet essential oil lady who happens to be the sister of a previous boss of mine contacted me about a BOGO deal going on with the doTERRA Essential Oil Company.  I said, "Ya know, I need to just do it". I signed up and enrolled and bought the BOGO deal that was happening. I spent a whopping $65 on our super tight budget without telling the hubby. Can you believe it! A wife that spends $65 without telling her husband?! Me either? (sarcasm intended)

Are you still laughing at me? I don't blame you. It seems so silly, but I felt so guilty, yet so liberated at the same time. I did something for me for the first time in what felt like forever. Unfortunately, it was the gateway to a crazy, oil crazed, money spending...wait.. sorry, wrong story. It was the gateway to opening up this incredible world of essential oils and natural solutions to living that I never knew I was missing in my life. It created an opportunity for a awesome career that I never would have ever intended for myself. In the past I had worked for folks for free or little to nothing before. I had volunteered endless hours doing what I thought I liked or enjoyed, but now, I found something new, something I loved. I get to set my own hours and I don't have to put the kiddos in daycare. I get to help people find breakthroughs in their health and wellness, teach classes, putting on events, create DIY projects, AND I get paid to have fun. I mean, how stinking cool? I even have Andrew addicted now and he is all for this new life.

I now am stepping out further to broaden my horizons and go back to a former love. A forgotten love has laid dormant inside of me that adores writing and creating. It's a place that beauty can pour into script that I lay out before me. A love that has been hidden away shamefully because, "GASP!" I couldn't possibly be as good as another. Comparison is a killer to the creative and the beauty in my originality is that no one will ever see it exactly the same way that I do. So why compare? Never, ever, ever in the history of the world can do what I can exactly the same way, shape and size. That fact simply astounds me. God is so crazy amazing! In His awesomeness, He created me from His originality and He is the only one that can see my truth like I do. I love that!

The adventure has begun, me sharing my heart, my passions, my love for oils, my creativity, my mommy and wifeyness, my struggles, my very being before a world wide audience. It's scary, like seriously, I have friends that have super successful blogs and if I would compare this blog to theirs, boy it would definitely suck. Thankfully, adventures can't be defined by comparison.

Adventures are trial and error, getting lost, stuck in the mud, messing up, and not knowing where that compass is actually pointing to. The adventure of life, it's all over the place, it's crazy, frustrating, tear-jerking even, and dangerous at times, and even dangerously stupid. In the end though, it makes one heck of story that others want to hear. Why? Because we all want to live a life worth living, that matters, that was lived. Hearing stories of others that are out there aren't just enough for me. Seeing what life has to offer, makes me want the adventure for myself. So here is me, here is Andrew, our family, our experiences with oils, natural solutions and how they are changing our lives. You could say, we are a couple of addicts.

-Aarica Attix

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