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~ Dianne ~

Ok... so I dropped the ball ...

It's been a very long time since I last posted here - yup, I did it - I dropped the ball bigtime.

As a work at home mom, life can often get in the way of business, and that is definately what has happened to me in February & March.

First our 2 y/o son came down with a very nasty cold. It was over 2 weeks before he started feeling better. In the meantime, I experienced the joy of an absessed tooth - uuugghhhh. Pain is definately NO FUN!

My 9 y/o daughter is a figure skater. This year I'm the Secretary of our Skating Club and on March 19th is our annual skating carnival. So, we've got practice at least twice a week (and during March break - this week - the schedule is Monday, Wednesday & Thursday practices, dress rehearsal Friday night from 5 - 8 and then 2 shows on Saturday at 2 pm & again at 7 pm. Friday morning at 9 am starts the set up at the arena. At noon I have to be in the city to pick up the radio system, then back to the arena to make sure everyone knows how to use the radios (I called in a favor from the company I worked at for 10 years for the radios!). Then at 5 we start the dress rehearsal. Oh... did I mention we have a 2 y/o son??? I'll be running around trying to get kids into the right costumes on time, my husband is on spotlight duty, my daughter is one of the skaters... and then there's my son. I'm thinkin we forgot about him somewhere along the lines LOL. Oh well - no babysitter - so we'll have to try to keep him occupied with something :)

AND... in amongst all this somewhere, I signed up as a consultant for Creative Memories - what am I NUTS? Well, my goal with this was to get me offline & out of the house more. In 2 weeks I achieved my 30 day Success Plan, I only need another $100 retail to make my second goal by the end of March, and I should be about $400 in towards my 60 day goal, so we'll see how that goes. However, it has already taken me more offline than I anticipated. I know it will settle down after my first 90 days, but right now trying to make those goals has taken my full attention.

I'm a little bummed about the fact that CM is so strict about advertising online. I mean, I can totally understand that they want to push the offline part of it - but honestly, what is the harm of online advertising??

Did I mention I also caught a cold at some point during all this??

So, Saturday is the big, exhausting day and I'm hoping after that to get caught up on everything I'm so far behind on.

Priorities - finally getting my website overhauled. My current template just isn't expanding with me the way I'd like it too, so a mega update is coming. Then with April being right around the corner, I'm co-hosting the 2nd Annual Celebrating Home Business Expo again this year at the Expo Connector, which should keep me hopping. On top of that the first entire weekend in April is all CM stuff - a meeting Friday night, a Home Class on Saturday & a Bridal Show on Sunday :)

Does anyone have a few (or a few dozen) extra hours every week I could borrow??

~ Dianne ~