It’s about time I wrote a gratitude post and sent out a bit of link love. Gratitude to those who have helped and are
continuing to help me on my WAHM journey. It still feels so new to me, but I’m also at a place where I could guide another newbie to some great resources to start their journey, so I must have moved along a little bit.

The Wonder Woman Of Internet Marketing

Kelly McCausey of  Mom Masterminds,  WAHMtalkradio & MomWebs is an amazing woman, not afraid to try new endeavours and very inspirational to many, many women including  yours truly. I am currently doing a Blog Internship with Kelly, so She is coaching me once a week via Skype. The Internship is through Mom Masterminds. (more…)

I had two teenagers doing trick or treat at the door on Oct 31st. It was 9.30pm. Must admit, I’d forgotton about Halloween temporarily despite all the Twittering leading up to it from everyone. I was involved in settling Charlotte when they arrived and we don’t do a whole lot of celebrating for it in this area. I was a wee bit nervous when the door knock came. Peter was away for the weekend and noone had ever knocked on our door at that time of night.

Trick  Or  Treat

I called out ‘Who is it?’ and they called back  ‘Trick or Treat’.  My next comment before opening the door was ‘I hope you’re not too scary for my 4 year old’.  For me really, but hey! I could see through the door that they were brightly lit up, no clue what their faces looked like and still no idea. They looked fabulous dressed up in brightly lit bracelets. You know the ones where you crack them to get the light going and then after 24 hrs they fade out? (Little secret I learned recently. Pop them in the freezer to prolong life. It worked for me). (more…)

What a fabulous way to start our day. Charlotte & I headed off at 9.30 am for a 10 o’clock start at the West Gippsland Arts Centre, to attend a one hour kiddie session organised by a Homeschooling Mum, to see the Melbourne

Symphony Orchestra. The well known conductor Richard Gill kept things orderly and all of us enthralled with his wit.

He asked for a few children to head up on stage to sing  ‘ Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ individually in front of the large audience and I have to tell you, their sweet voices choked me up. They were amazingly on key and I felt proud as punch as if it were Charlotte up there. No chance that’s going to happen, not for a long time anyway, but She happily bopped about on my knee to the music and seemed quite mesmerised at times.

On the way to the Arts Centre in the car, Charlotte and I were having such a giggle because for some reason She couldn’t say the word ‘interesting’, but She could say ‘Orchestra’ and every time She tried to say ‘interesting’, She’d trip up on it even though She’s never had a problem any other time. (more…)