Ann Christian Buchanan is a respected communicator with more than twenty-five years experience and considerable success in the gift and inspirational market. She works regularly as an editor and maintains an active sideline of writing liner copy for publishers. A Texan by birth, Anne lives in Terre Haute, Indiana with her professor husband, two dogs, and three cats.
She and her husband have one daughter. My Account Log in Registration. Consider changing the search query. List is empty. The large house and lavish lifestyle she had known turned into equally large and crushing 6-figure credit card debt. She was still supporting four children and the only work she could find was barely covering basic bills. It was really bad. And then the economic crash of hit. Tammy was overwhelmed, with all of her investment properties facing foreclosure.
We were down to one car. Colonel Jerry Melchisedeck, but the debt was still pushing them to the brink. One day she went to her husband in tears. They had to sell the beautiful wedding ring he had given her, just to pay for food and the minimum amount of bills.
I felt like a failure. I felt I had failed my kids and failed myself. But I had a will. The sky has no limit when you have a strong desire for change.
She knew she needed another source of income for the future. When Tammy was introduced to LIMU by a close friend, she was motivated to research the company and the products.
And I just wasn't capable of doing that. Two days later, all four of my kids were home on Christmas break. And there was still no tree. No sign of Christmas. That evening, while cleaning up after dinner, I heard voices downstairs, in the finished basement.
Then my oldest appeared. She led me downstairs. There, near the piano, stood the scruffy little artificial conifer we used to call the children's tree. I'd bought it years before, when the kids were small, and I used it to hang their school ornaments—those construction paper and glitter and macaroni creations that just didn't look right on my majestic, fragrant, decorated, upstairs tree.
Apparently the kids had dug through our store room to find that tree. They set it up, draped it with lights, and hung their childhood ornaments. The tree was still scruffy, but it was beautiful too. Another started playing carols on the piano. All I could do was sink into a chair and weep.
I was happy. And overwhelmed by guilt that I hadn't managed to make Christmas happen for these kids I loved so much. And overcome with gratitude that they had gotten together to make it happen for me.
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