{"id":26,"date":"2010-08-30T23:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calvertstudios.wordpress.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2010-08-30T23:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:52:57","slug":"two-businesses-and-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/two-businesses-and-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Two businesses and a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I married my husband, Steve, I knew I was marrying a struggling entrepreneur. \u00a0I was fine with it. \u00a0In fact, even when his business closed, I was excited to be married to someone who was self-motivated enough to try out new ideas. \u00a0A person who has that kind of drive is generally a prince or a pauper: \u00a0he has been both.<\/p>\n<p>Steve \u00a0is a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Haberdasher\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haberdasher\">haberdasher<\/a> by trade. \u00a0He has been selling custom clothing for men since he was 16 years old. \u00a0After a couple of years of trying out new career options, he decided to give up and do what he loves. \u00a0Not only does he love it, but he is excellent at his craft. \u00a0Yes, I&#8217;m his wife and I&#8217;m proud, but this dude should be selling clothing on Rodeo Drive and not in Huntsville, AL. \u00a0He is really that good. \u00a0Ok..enough of the bragging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Steve opened his new store, &#8220;Traditions by Steve Calvert&#8221;, in April of this year. \u00a0It was about that time that I started considering opening a photography business, but I wanted to wait until he had gotten settled into his new spot. \u00a0By May, I sprung this news: \u00a0I&#8217;m selling all of my music equipment and buying photography equipment. \u00a0I&#8217;m starting my business. \u00a0He was amazingly supportive! \u00a0He always has been, so, I&#8217;m not sure why I was surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Our son, Asher, is now 10 months old. \u00a0He is a bubbling bundle of joy. \u00a0Due to both of us starting a new business, we are unable to afford daycare. \u00a0This presents daily challenges, but we have struggled our way through it and found a way to raise two businesses and a baby. \u00a0The rewards are endless, the challenges are astounding, and the excitement is unimaginable. \u00a0If someone tells you that running your own business is better than a &#8220;real&#8221; job, agree, but keep in mind that this is a road which is not easily traveled. \u00a0It is, however, well worth the trip!<\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s Facebook page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Huntsville-AL\/Traditions-by-Steve-Calvert\/115437088490304?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"> Traditions by Steve Calvert<\/a> (I&#8217;m working on getting him more internet marketing savvy \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to both of us starting a new business, we are unable to afford daycare.  This presents daily challenges, but we have struggled our way through it and found a way to raise two businesses and a baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autumncalvert.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}