The Day My Husband Gave Me Permission to Keep Blogging + A Little R & R Wednesdays - a linky party #50

I opened up Pinterest for perhaps the first time in weeks, and staring back at me was the pin:

How My Blogging Brought My Husband Home Full-time
I had to read that post. That 8-word title summed up what I had been dreaming of.
I was trying to come out of a writing/blogging "funk" last January, when God gave me two directives. Both of them seemed so impossible!
I have shared about the first one - to blog for 14 straight days.  The other one I have alluded to over the past couple of months.
To start making serious strides to monetize my blog.
I didn't even know how to do that...beyond the Adsense ads I had put up the year before...and took down because they didn't seem to be making me any money.....and put back up because...well...it was kind of fun to watch the pennies roll in every other day.

God doesn't give directives without a purpose and I knew this one had a strong purpose.
Many of you know that my husband is a shift worker. He works all three shifts, rotating each week; many times 6-7 days a week. He has been known to work nearly 30 days with no day off. Worst of all, he doesn't even really like his job.  So not only do the shifts and lack of adequate time off put an enormous strain on our family, it isn't even a sacrifice we make because of something he really believes in.
To make it all even more difficult, he is only able to attend church 1-2 times a month.
We know this isn't God's best for him.
There was another roadblock, though. 
My husband is old-school. Now, in case you think that is a put-down, it's not. I actually really like that about him. I kind of like the fact that every email address he's had has been closed down for lack of use. I like the fact that his Internet usage is pretty much limited to YouTube and Croatia's version of Craig's List.
He is a really good balance to my tendency to lose track of time on here. 
So, over the past year a dream has been growing in my heart...and until the moment I read Jamerrill's post, my husband had always sort of humored my blogging hobby. Truly that's all it was until that point when I heard God's voice in prayer giving that double challenge
After I read the now "famed article", I shared it with him and I got a response that I did expect.  His reaction? "Then please keep blogging. Even if it takes you 4-5 years to start making money, it will be worth it." 
My jaw dropped so far down to the floor that I swear, a fly flew straight down my throat.
Did he just take blogging seriously? The same guy who wears the Anti-Facebook badge with pride?

Oh yes he did!
The past several months I have been reading up all I can on monetization and blogging about my research. I have tried out many of those tricks and found some of the immediately successful.  Some will need more tweaking and time. Some tactics I know I need to work on, some I have yet to try out. It's a journey that I know I'll be writing a lot about in the future.  Actually, really soon - as there is another part to this story that comes with some big news!
 
Do you have a story? Is it still only a dream? Is it in the painful "birthing" stage? Is it being written right now? Have you been successful?

I'd love to hear your story. If you'd like to share your story with us, email me and let me know!



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