Introducing Myself

Hi everyone! Thank you for taking the time to read this and supporting me in this chapter. I'm officially a licensed real estate agent, and so excited to showcase my ability to help you in your home dreams.

I truly can’t express what your support means to me. This whole process has been a little out of my comfort zone and I’ve wondered, more than a few times, if I’m crazy for entering the world of real estate while balancing my already beautifully, chaotic life. I stay home with my three wonderful kids who are 5, 3, and 1. My days are filled with washing, folding, and storing copious amounts of tiny clothes and cooking lots of meals that I’ll have to bribe all of them to eat, tickle fights and the best hugs ever. I also help support my husband, who helps run his family funeral homes. Our life is crazy and so wonderful.

When my oldest son, Charlie, was born I decided to leave the world of education and stay home with him. I had just graduated with my degree in Special Education, and I was working with amazing teachers. The decision to stay home was difficult, but I also knew balancing work schedules that often ran into the evenings and weekends, would mean giving away too much time with our son. Since then, Miles and Ada have also joined our family. Staying home has far and away been the most rewarding, difficult thing I’ve ever done. I remember those first months home with Charlie, I wondered how I was going to do it. Then I blinked. Now I look around at my little babies and see how independent and grown they are getting, even when they are still so little. Motherhood is weird. One of the hardest parts of being a parent is exerting more time and energy than you knew you had and pouring it into your kids. You learn how to live on almost no sleep and how to juggle 10 things at once. And then slowly, and sometimes way too quickly, they start growing up. They start needing you less and less in the obvious ways they once did, and it’s makes you feel so proud but also a little sad.

As I prepared to send my boys to school this year, I gave a lot of thought to what my life would look like when all of my kids were in school. I wanted to balance being there for my kids with regaining some of the professional drive I have. I thought long and hard about what I would find rewarding while still being able to meet the needs of my family. It was after several conversations with friends and family who were all in some sort of home buying or selling process, that I realized how much I enjoyed real estate.

I found so much value in those conversations, aimed at helping people understand how they could get what they wanted in a home. I knew if I was going to trade my time at home with a job, it needed to be something I felt was rewarding. There were so many things that went into the decision, and hopefully I’ll share more of those in other posts, but for now I just want to reiterate how grateful I am to be starting this journey and how willing I am to show you how hard I’ll work for you.

-Taylor