Keeping Family Close

This post is going to go off of the beaten path just a little bit from my normal routine of  giving updates from my day to day activities... after going through all of the trouble and stress to find the right cell phone plan and figuring out just the right way to keep in communication with family from back home (while also watching my money!) I felt it important to write about just why that was so extremely important to me and why I was so gosh darn adamant about not giving up until I found a few to be able to stay in contact with my family... (wow long I know!) So many of my friends were probably thinking dang girl why can't you just give up already or just stick with the simplicity of the pay as you go phone and call it a day?! But you see it's not that simple for me. My family is my life. As crazy as we are, as much as we might drive each other nuts sometimes, get in fights, or anything else, I love them to my very core. They are my achilles tendon and I am nothing without them. I would never be able to be the woman I am today or in the position that I am in today if I didn't have their support to get me here. So because I'm constantly doing things for my career and throwing myself all over the country (and now all over the world) I've made a personal promise to myself that no matter where I go or what I'm doing I'll make sure that I can take my family with me (not in a literal sense of course). But I will do everything in my power to make sure that I have the absolute best access to them that I can make possible. I'll set up Skype (even if this means I have to personally visit their homes and set it up for them ;D), international cell phones, international SIM cards, I'll go to the ends of the Earth if that means they're only a phone call or text away. It sounds crazy, but they're my support system and having them in my pocket gives me not only the confidence I need to go all over the world but to maintain the family life that I can't live without. My crazy schedule will never be too busy for the people I love. I believe in that no matter what anyone will ever tell me. Yes, sometimes it's hard and sometimes I might not do very good. But I will never give up and it will always be worth it. My 8 is worth it. No matter where life takes me I will be able to have my career and my family. Don't even tell me you can prove me wrong or you want to try or you have plenty of examples. That's great if you do, but you're not me. I'm someone who sets goals, ones that are ridiculously high and then fights like hell to achieve them and when it's one that I believe in as much as something like this one it's impossible to keep me from seeing it through. I'll make it work and I'll do it the best way I know how... with my family standing by my side the whole way there.