My "Why"?



These two handsome men are my reason "Why" for most things in my life, but especially the reason I joined It Works.

 

It seemed that happiness had caught me on September 15, 2012 when I began dating the best guy I knew and it didn't take long for me and my family to realize that he was "the one". Never had I met someone who embraced and loved life as much as Devo and yet was hard-working, strong, reliable, sweet, and not to mention - HANDSOME ;) There I was, with Mr. Right, living our lives day to day and growing in love every moment.

 

On August 23, 2013 - My life changed in ways I never thought possible. Wyatt Nash arrived a week late after 3 long, hard days of labor (we joke that he was waiting for the weekend and ready to party!) and suddenly, I was responsible for another life. My heart had never contained so much love. Immediately I knew that I would, as long as I lived, do everything in my power to provide and protect this precious gift of life. I knew that I simply couldn't go back to my full-time job at the hospital and leave him with a babysitter. And thus began my life as a stay-at-home-mom.

 

We're extremely fortunate that Devo has a job that provides enough for me to stay at home with Wyatt but after a while, we both started to miss the paycheck I was bringing in. Suddenly, we went from being able to jet off to Aspen, Colorado for a week vacation, eat at expensive restaurants every night, and buy each other snowboards and shotguns for Christmas to clipping coupons, making home-cooked meals, and barely having enough to pay our bills each month. Our standard of living had drastically changed and we adapted to meet it. We were living with less money and more love than ever before.

 

The only problem is the stress and instability that not having extra money in the bank brings. We knew that we wanted to provide the best possible life for Wyatt (not to mention our future children)! We wanted to take him on the vacations to Disney World that we never got to take. We wanted to set up a nice college fund and be able to buy him his first car (even if it is an old junker!). We knew that we needed a solid savings fund incase something happened. In short, I knew that I wanted to contribute to our finances again. Not only was it necessary, but it was empowering. I didn't like asking Devo for the money that I was used to making and having him pay all of my bills didn't help the situation.

 

It Works is for our dreams. Where else could I make this life changing money while staying at home with my children? It Works is to be debt-free! It Works is for Disney World, it's for college, it's for emergencies, it's for our future. It's to own our first house and ranch. It's to help our family and friends. It's for our wedding, it's for our retirement. It's for a network of support and positivity.

 

But mostly,

It Works is to help me grow into the person I need to become to achieve my goals.

 

And that's my "WHY".

 

Best Wishes,

Alyssa