Way Back When..esday

Em and Er, February 2005

I was blessed to be at home with my girls for the first three years of their lives.  (Now I am blessed to work from home and be with them every day!)  We always had a daily routine and part of that was to go check the mail...this is how we would bundle up to go check it.  I just love my precious girls!

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What it is that I do...

I have received several emails over the course of the last couple of weeks wondering what this wonderful company is that has blessed me to stay at home with my girls...this blog is going to share that with you.

In July of 2008, I was approached to come and look at a business that they thought..."I would love".  Just for the record I was not a big fan of multi-level marketing.  Not because I had done something before but because we all know people that tried something, THEY didn't work it so they said the opportunity didn't work. 

I sat down and actually shared with the people presenting that I was not going to be interested in "whatever this was".  Then they started to get in to it...it blew my mind.

You see prior to this wonderful business...I was the head recruiter at a casino.  Really super fun job...I just didn't like the direction the company was going, so I gave my notice.  During my two week notice is when this business was presented.

I now own my own telecommunications company...here is the beautiful thing, every time one of my friends or family members pays their home phone, cell phone, TV, internet, or home security bill...I get paid.  It's called residual income.  Residual income is doing the work once and getting paid over and over and over again for it.  This is one of the ways that we make money.

Another thing that I love is that I don't have to sell you ANYTHING, you already use and pay for the services that we offer EVERY SINGLE DAY!  So I am not going back to you and selling you a vitamin or a lotion, potion or magical juice (which all of those are great products) in order to make my residual for the month. 

We are an amazing company that has the most blessed leadership that you could come across.  I am thankful for what this has allowed me and my family. 

First of all...it's the phone.  Everyone is going to use and pay for a phone until the day they quit breathing air.  To be able to make money every time someone paid their phone bill was amazing to me!

Here I am a year and a half later more excited about this opportunity than I have ever been in my life.  You see I have always worked for someone.  Then I understood you could never create wealth working for someone else...you could create wealth for them but not for yourself.

My heart is with helping people and I love being able to help so many people every single day. 

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I wish you all great success in whatever you do...the number one thing that I would recommend to change your life is to read and listen to self help books and audios every single day!

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Random Tuesday Thoughts...

Oh yes, it's Tuesday again. Woo-hoo! Time for Random Tuesday Thoughts! If you want to get down with your randomness head over the Keely.

I just think that it is so funny when we, out here in California, get any kind of bad weather...it's as though everyone has forgotten anything they ever knew about driving!  And yesterday there was so much snow.  Of course the school called a snow day cuz it was actually too dangerous to drive in...but last night I got a call on my phone from the school letting us know there would be no school today either due to the ice that is going to be on the ground.  This makes sense though considering when it rains they don't know what to do...what would they do in the ice?

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The tooth fairy came last night and dropped the tooth on the bedroom floor somewhere...the tooth fairy looked and looked for it in the middle of the night, but still no luck.  I am curious what mom is going to have to tell Em about the magical tooth fairy who dropped her tooth on the ground.  We're about to find out...

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Jim Rohn died...what an awesome, inspirational mentor and leader. Sad to see him go...but so thankful for all the books and audios he leaves behind.

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There is a cool website that little miss Amanda over at Garibay Soup told me about called...www.dafont.com.  All was well and fine until I looked at the "sexy" fonts...just an FWI, make sure your kids are already in bed before going there...perhaps there will be a time when I need to write a note to someone in the font, "Cocksure".  Who knows?

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Looking for suggestions that you have on parenting in a way that my kids will always feel comfortable talking to me.  Any ideas would be great....they're only 6 but I think if I start doing it now, when they're teenagers it will be already instilled in them.  Perhaps that's wishful thinking...lol!

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Is it really necessary that they make Tiger Woods CHEATING the top news headline over all the other things that are going on in the world.  That's so very sad!

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Today I am learning to love failure...I'll keep ya posted on how it goes.

Peace Out!

There's snow place like home...

Sorry that I haven't been around for the last couple of days.  I have had the most amazing weekend ever.  I am so very blessed that I am able to work from home in such an phenomenal company...then it gets even better...every three months I am able to travel for a weekend to go to training. 

This last weekend was unbelieveable...it changes lives. 

Driving home yesterday I noticed that it was exceptionally cold in Southern CA...very rare regardless of what time of year.  The closer we got to home...the colder it got. 

Our area of Northern CA definitely has its seasons, however we don't get snow very often. 

This is what I woke up to today...looking out our front windows.  How super exciting...after 4 days away from home, I am blessed to come home to snow!

With it being a snow day at school, I was so excited that I got to hang out with my girls all day...we couldn't get our snow gear on quick enough.

There was just one problem though...since moving twice in two months...we didn't know where the girls snow stuff was.  But much to our surprise, a business partner of mine who was not able to make it home last night due to the roads being closed from the snow, was here with a truck full of snow stuff.  You see, my business partner lives in South Lake Tahoe which snows all winter long.  He was so equipped it was rediculous!

He had sleds, beanies, kids gloves, gloves for me, etc.  Not to metion a snow shovel to make a jump in the driveway for the girls to go over.  It was so much fun! 

My neice Skye came over to play with the girls too!  (You can see them all on the sled above on the left)

There truly is SNOW place like home!

                                                            

When they think she's her sister....

Another lesson in the life of twins today...

My girls are 6 years old and they are in different classes in 1st grade.  There are many days that they WANT to dress alike.  Every morning when I am getting them ready for school I will ask them if they want to dress alike or different and around 80% of the time they want to dress alike.

Well, needless to say there are many kids in their classes that know that they have an identical twin sister but truly wouldn't know who was who in the hallway.  Today, as usual, they were dressed alike.  It actually doesn't even matter, they can get to school and walk each other to their classes and their friends try to figure out which one is in their class.  I think it is fun for them to guess so that they make an effort and unfortunately, no one has gotten them right yet...including their teachers. :)

This is where the story begins.  When I was picking the girls up from school today, Erynn was walking toward me and we were going to walk over and get Emilie.  A little boy from Em's class (who is usually really shy) said, "Hi Emilie" to Erynn.  And I wasn't sure if Erynn actually said hi, it appeared that she didn't.  My heart instantly hurt for that little boy that he got enough courage to say hi to Em and then thinks she didn't even say hi back.

So I had to have a talk with my girls...and I said, this is something that is going to happen for the rest of your life.  There will be way more people that can't tell you apart than that can.  So when you are walking through the school...through the store...wherever you are and someone says hi to you and thinks you are your sister, just say hi.  Why?  Because they are going to think that your sister is being rude if you don't.  Now there will be those that really think that you are the other one and it is at that point that I would let them know that they must think that you are your identical twin sister and then let them know that you are not.  Otherwise, it is going to be easier for both of you through life just to say hi to those that say hi in casual passing. :)

What an interesting concept to have to explain to my 6 yr olds.  They totally understood and Erynn actually let me know that she did say hi to that nice boy when he thought she was her sister.  Phew...thank goodness!

Where did my insight come from???  My sister (who is 11 months older than me) married an identical twin...and I ask them a lot of questions about growing up.  Here they are 39 years old, still look exactly alike, sound exactly alike and even though they live an hour and a half away...they own a business together, work together every single day, play together on the weekends, have the same hobbies, buy the same trucks, motorhomes, baja cars...you name it.  And to this day, they still say hi to those that in passing think they are their brother...it just makes life easier I guess.

Way Back When..esday...

I love this picture...it was almost two years ago.  The girls were 4 years old and our baby puppy is an albino boxer, her name is Martini and we love her so much.  She was about 10 weeks old there.

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Random Tuesday Thoughts...

Oh yes, it is Tuesday again. Woo-hoo! Time for Random Tuesday Thoughts! If you want to get down with your randomness head over the Keely.

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Why is it that the older people get, the less they get praised.  You will do a pee pee dance with your kids just for going potty and as they start to get older... it starts to turn into, do this, do that without any dances.  I want to be a person of positive influence on my children and others around me...always making them feel better about themselves and helping them believe they can conquer the world.

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There are times where you wonder if you should actually lighten up a little and let your child ride the bus to school...until days like today.  On the way to school, right in front of the school, there is a huge yellow school bus that looks like it cut a corner too sharp and ended up on the corner and anything that was under the corner.  It is actually lifted up so that half of the tires were not touching the ground.  And the kids were still in it.  It's moments like these that you remember that by riding the bus, you would be putting their lives in someone elses hands.

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The tortilla's at Costco that you buy that are uncooked...holy cow...those are my downfall.  Once that package is gone I will start the no carb thing again. :)

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Commit to reading 10 pages of a self help book a day.  You figure if you read 10 pages a day...what will that take, maybe a half an hour at the most.  Then figure that in to a year...3650 pages a year.  That's a lot of books that you could be reading to help better your life, friends and families lives, your children's lives, etc.  Don't under estimate the value of reading books about very successful people.  Whether you want success in parenting, finances, personal growth, the list is endless.  Take that step to commit to yourself going in to the new year...10 pages a day and watch it change your life.

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My girls are so funny...they are so animated and have such great little personalities.  They are both totally into dance moves.  Erynn's infatuation right now is the dance move of spanking herself...she figures out how to do it several different ways. 

To be concerned or not to be concerned...that is the question.

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Merry Christmas...there are many people that write Merry X-mas and I have NEVER done that because you are taking the "Christ" out of Christmas.  Just another random thought.

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Heading to So Cal on Thursday early early morning...ready for a fun filled weekend full of awesome inspiration, motivation and training.  Can't wait!

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Have a great week all and go get random with the Un Mom