Me and the love of my life

Just starting on eBay can be overwhelming but I have a good friend who has been doing this for several years helping me figure it all out.

Why am I here?  History 101....

I am pushing 50... seems odd I don't feel it but sometimes the old lady in the mirror gives me a shock.  My life has been a great ride.  I was lucky enough to be a stay at home mom and raise my son.  He is now 22, graduated with a biochemical engineering degree this year and is off at Penn State working on his PHD  When I have interviewed for jobs people ask me what my favorite job was and I always say being Andrew's mom!

When he went off to high school I went to work for Sears in Retail Management.  That is when my marriage failed.  It was never that great but Andrew was the glue.  I guess without him there the end happened quietly and calmly.  I was rapidly promoted and praised for my work in the "real world".  I enjoyed my life!  I wasn't looking for love but found the love of my life!

Anthony came in to my life and for the past 5 years has been the greatest joy I have ever experienced.  Anyone who has unconditional love knows exactly what I mean!

Me Dad and Dave

We got married and bought a house and thought we were moving in the right direction.  I quit my job at Sears as it was getting very stressful (that is what happens when companies start failing).

I tried a few other jobs and landed a sweet job with H&M (or so I thought...)

I went to Phillidelphia for 2 months of training and got very sick.  Being the stubborn person I am I gutted it out and came home very run down and sicker than I knew.  I started working and just got sicker and sicker and sicker.

In Febuary of last year I was hospitalized with Phnumonia and a massive infection that affected my heart.  I lost my job and it took 3 months to recover.  I was also diagnosed with severe rhumatoid arthritis and have known constant pain every day.  Other family illnesses took their tole on me with worry and feeling the need to care for them as well.  My oldest brother had ALS (lou gherigs disease) and my dad who is 78 was taking care of him.  I spent half of last year out in California helping my dad care for my brother. 

David passed away on Christmas Day.  He always inspires me!  He coped with this disease with such joy!  He never got angry or depressed.  His faith was strong and he knows Gods perfect love now.  My son was diagnosed with MS when he was 17 about a month after David was diagnosed with ALS.  Because of his experience and the experience of disease his Uncle Dave and I he is interested in becoming a researcher and had donated time and lots of blood to the MS research clinic here in Saint Louis.

I know this sounds like a medical story but it just brings me to why I am doing eBay.  With all the needs my family has right now I wanted to focus my attention on caring for them (and myself) but we still need a second income to make ends meet... enter eBay!

The great thing is I have found I love it!  It brings out the creative side of me!  Marketing, Photographing and deciding what to sell is so much fun!  I hope I can be successful and still care for my family.  eBay gives me a great deal of flexability to work or not depending  on my families needs and my health.  I know life had bumps that can feel like you are being hit over the head by a bat but I am an optimest and most of the time Iive with great joy and gratitude!