Finally back!

Well.. It has been a long time hasn't it. This mom of 3 has been a little busy the last 6 months. I thought that the summer time was going to be an awesome time for me to have more time to myself and to be able to focus on my business. What was I thinking?? A husband and 3 children all out of school just makes a lot more work and chaos for us moms. This 2nd week of July has seemed to be the toughest yet - the kids are fighting a lot and seem to be ready to separate from each other and go back to school and the 97 degree weather has not been helping. There is not a mom that I have talked to this week that isn't counting the days until the kids go back. And we love our kids, but want to see them happily going to school with their friends instead of being bored and having noone to play with.

Anyway, I am looking forward to getting back into a routine and sharing more information on my Blog. I have learned so much in the last 6 months and am leaving for Minneapolis in 2 weeks for my company's big convention!! It is the first time I have left my kids overnight ever!! I am slightly nervous about it and know that it will be so hard to leave them, but I am also excited to meet more of my WAHU teammates and attend some workshops.

Have a very busy day tomorrow - taking one child to speech and the other two to the park, then gymnastics in the evening, and hopefully getting some quiet time to work inbetween. Keep your fingers crossed for me please!!

my crazy day

Well the promotion that my company was having ended today and here is how my day went.

-My 1st grader had a Christmas play at 8am and this is the one day that the boys decided to sleep past 6:30. We fought traffic in the rain and made it in time to see most of it.
-Stopped by the grocery on the way home and left the umbrella at home = one drenched mommy, boys, and groceries.
-Called my mentor and received a call from someone who is thinking about starting a business - she had more questions...
-While I was on this call, the boys worked very hard at emptying out all the bedding chips out of our new guinea pig's cage all over our carpet. Spent the next 20 minutes vacuuming and moving the new pet to the kitchen.
-Sent out a few text messages and checked my email. Responded to a few questions about my business
-Lunch time and dirty diapers. The boys only wanted the gummy bugs out of their kids cuisine tray and picked at the rest.
-Tried twice to get my two year old to nap - made a phone call inbetween attempts.
-Called a new business partner to see if I could do anything to help and ended up talking for a half hour. The boys now decided to dump out all the guinea pigs food and mix it into the bedding...
-Picked up my daughter from school and finally got my two year old to nap after we got home.
My husband had brought home one of these bakugan toys from school to show my son and the boys both wanted it and fought terribly all night until he finally ended up taking them to target to buy some more.
-I stayed home with my daughter for bath, homework, story, bed...
-2 loads of laundry later and I am finally sitting down at the computer to do a little advertising and send out a newsletter to my team.

This is what the life of a work at home mom is really like. I work whenever I get the time to. Even though there is always something going on around the house, I work phone calls and emails into my day. It is great to stay home with the kids and even more wonderful to not have to miss them or pay for daycare, but you do have to be a pretty good muli-tasker and be self motivated to make it work.

free seminar for moms coping with special needs

I am so grateful to be working from home so that I can actively participate in my 3 year olds speech therapy sessions and OT sessions. I cannot even imagine working outside the home right now and having someone else tell me when to work.

My speech therapist let me know about a free telesiminar this Wednesday for moms who would like to learn more about how to cope with the different situations that come with having a child with special needs.
You can visit
http://familiesblossoming.com/confident-special-parent
to register.

I will listening on there - hope to see you on there too.

Is your husband skeptical about you working from home?

We had a great training session this week. One of our executive directors was talking about how her husband was not supportive when she started her business. He came on the call and gave us some great advice about working through this problem. By the way, she has also replaced his income. He quit his job and is staying home working the business now too. He gets to be at every field trip with his kids and coach all of their sports at school.

Thankfully my husband was supportive of my decision and we did not have to go through all this. But, I see many women struggle with this issue. I do not even think I asked my husband. It made sense to me and I got started.. I knew that I did not have to purchase inventory and resale it or pay for my training and I knew that I could cancel my membership in any given month.
It was an investment of time, not money.