It has been another long and exhausting week. I have been meaning to write something but every time I get a moment, 2 little ones come and interrupt. I read another blog regularly, Snickolett, and her story is sad and inspiring at the same time. She and her husband John got married, and 3 weeks after they were married he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. They had wanted to have children, and decided that they would follow through with that plan regardless of the outcome, as they both new what the outcome would be. They got pregnant and had boy/girl twins in June of 06. John passed away in April 2007, so he never got to see their first birthday, but he did get to enjoy fatherhood to some extent. So now Snickolett is journeying through life as a widowed single mother of twins at very early age. I admire her for that, and even though my situation is at the opposite ends of the spectrum, I find myself relating to her on some levels of the single mom thing. When I start to feel like a single mom, I remember that E will be home in two weeks, vs John who will be home never and I consider myself blessed. Snickolett is an amazing woman and just coming back inter her own, and starting dating again. Her children are amazing and adjusting very well.
On then venture home front things seems pretty good. I printed up some business cards and took myself to the chamber of commerce expo and did a little networking. Folks seemed surprised/confused/interested in what a Virtual Assistant was. I had not yet perfected my 30 second elevator speech, but overall I think I did ok, and have a potential client or 2. I also approached E about the idea, even though I was scared he was going to pop my balloon with the biggest pin he could find, he didn't. In fact we talked quite a bit about marketing and sales, as that is really where is forte lies. I really want him to be a part of this, and feel like it's a team endeavor vs just me trying to make it work. He of course had his reservations and concerns about health care, which I do as well, but I think we can work through that. I called his company to find out how much it would be for their health care, and it will be double based on the information she gave me. But I swear when we were looking at it originally it all seemed the same except for the out of pocket deductible. Mine was 3200, and his was 5000. But based upon what she told me yesterday, it seems completely different from what I remember. But overall he seems enthusiastic about it, and I am willing to do all the work and networking and whatever else it takes to make this work.
On the child side of things, these kids are giving me a mini-nervous breakdown every weekend lately. I was blessed to have someone come and watch them all day yesterday, after I took them for their flu shot that is, but I went to the bookstore and just relaxed and read books for a few hours! It was soooo nice! She is going to come over at least once a month for that kind of day, and I will gladly take it, you do not have to ask me twice for things like that!
So that is the boring up, nothing major happened. I have 1 week left before I am "notified" of my job elimination. Should be an interesting week.
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