So as most of you know, I have several jobs. First of all, I am a wife and mother, which happily takes up most of my time. One of the reasons that we moved away and "started fresh" was so I could step back from responsibilities working for other people and take care of my family. However, due to the nature of things, I still need to pull in some kind of income. So, here's a little bit of what I have been up to:
1. Creative Memories
This job has proved to be a good thing this past month! It's only half-way through the month and I have had my best sales in all of the 3 years I have done this business! I have had very successful events this month and loyal customers who are very good to me and come to me for all their scrapbooking needs! I did so well this month that I will be receiving a huge commission bonus check and some free stuff from the company. :-)
2. Piano and Voice Lessons
I currently have six students each week. There are several people "in the works" who are considering taking lessons and there are also a couple kids who had to take a break for awhile... hopefully they will be coming back soon! I donated lessons to Tiernan Irish Dance this past weekend for their fundraiser dinner and both the piano and voice lessons sold, so that may bring two new students, too!
3. Transcribing
At the very beginning of this month I completed my last interview from the project I have been working on since July. I was so thankful for this opportunity... it just kept going and going! Originally I thought I would only have work through August... but it lasted so much longer! Praise God for answers to prayer in ways that are just so simple and easy for me to do. I know that he always answers prayer, sometimes in ways I don't expect or see right away, but it's amazing when some things resolve themself in such an obviously good way. I enjoy transcribing and hope to keep doing it for years to come! What a blessing to work from home, on my own schedule, while caring for my family!
Anyway, these things have been keeping my pretty busy the last few weeks. But things are going to slow down now as we approach the holidays... now it's just time to wait for the baby and hopefully not get too anxious!
Oh, I forgot #4... teaching Spiderman! This month we have started a new pre-school series which is being provided by a friend who has extra copies for her own pre-school that she runs out of her home. So we are getting to use their same worksheets and projects. This week is "Manners Week" so he is learning about "please, thank you, and excuse me"... we are also reading together and of course, coloring and doing playdough!!! (Two favs!)
