Posts Tagged ‘writing’

July 21st, 2010

Busy Weekends on the Horizon!

I feel like the “professional” part of my life is really starting to catch up with me with some seriously busy weekends coming up. As if my Monday through Friday isn’t already up there now that I am officially working from home too.

I will start with my new job. Yes… JOB!  I am handling all the social media for Go Mama Go Designs. One of my sponsors for BlogHer, and a great company. I love the women there, and I am super excited to be helping them out by taking over their social media.  I am handling their Twitter account, Facebook fan page, networking with other companies, and of course blogging.

This Friday I am having my wisdom teeth out, along with one problem tooth being pulled. Putting me out of commission all weekend long. I am going to be going to my parents house Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday because with the kids, and me being so high maintenance when I am sick, injured, or in pain, I figured it would be easiest for my husband.  Who needs a 25 year old child to take care of too?

Then comes my Passion for Birth workshop with the beautiful wealth of knowledge Robin Elise Weiss. She is coming all the way across the country to teach my class, and I am so excited to finally meet her as we have been buddies online for quite some time. I am super excited to be taking another great step to becoming a Lamaze Teacher, because we certainly need more childbirth education teachers in our area, as well as Lamaze teachers.

Just as that ends, I have barely 4 days to tie up my lose ends, and head off to New York City for the BlogHer Conference. I will be rooming with Marie Cooper from Nourish Ourselves, who I already love just from chatting with her on the phone, and email!  We also have a third roommate, I have only e-mailed with thus far, but she seems like a cool chick from MFA Mom.  I am beyond excited.
I still need to do a million things :

My blog her to do list, although I did get some things crossed off is still FULL!

1. Go clothes shopping for something to wear to all these parties!  Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights all have important adventures I certainly need to shine up like a new penny for. Plus it gives me the excuse to get dressed up when I rarely have the chance since motherhood. (Got a great deal at our awesome  Thrift store, and walked out with almost everything I need for $45!)
2. Collect all my favorite Bloggers telephone numbers so I can get in touch with them once I get to NYC. I heard since there are so many people at BlogHer it is sometimes near impossible to find some of the ladies you are looking for without cell phones. What the heck did we do before them? If you want to hook up in NYC for BlogHer, Click here!
3. Order my business cards. I currently have them in my cart of Vista, but I am going to hold out another 3-4 weeks until I know for sure if I do or do not have a second sponsor. I would HATE to waste money getting more printed to add another sponsor on the back. Cards ordered, and delivered!  Beyond excited how cute they are!
4. Steal my Moms rolling suitcases to pack. I by no means have luggage. We never go anywhere and if we do, we have smaller overnight type bags we use. Not only that but I am going to need to have my stuff on wheels because of the train aspect of my travel.
5. Find a place in NYC that is not only reasonably priced but local to the hotel I am going to be staying in for dinner on Thursday night. I have 4 possible places to eat dinner on Thursday night, in a mini dinner party, interested?  Click here!
6. Get invited to one of these special parties being hosted by private companies. I would give ANYTHING to be invited to the Nikon party!  (Still waiting NIKON!)
7. Find a babysitter for the children for Friday the 6th. All set since my mom decided to quit her job. But that is a whole story in itself. LOL
8. Manicure, pedicure, massage, and haircut.  Haircut and dye scheduled!
9. Think about other materials I can make with my blog information on them to give out while networking. Since I know I can’t be giving out swag at BlogHer, I need to think of cool things to use my blog logo on. Bumper Stickers? Post Cards? Pens?  What do you think? All my materials are printed, and IN!
10. Thank my husband again for all the help he has been giving me with planning my BlogHer trip. I could not have asked for a more supportive husband!  He is awesome and super excited for all of the things taking off!

Last but certainly not least at all!  I have a meeting scheduled the day I go into the city for BlogHer with a Publisher!  Yes, you heard me right, a publisher!  This all just happened in the past hour as I was writing this post, but I am OVER the moon! I guess hard work really does pay off right?

Needless to say, The next couple weeks are going to be slightly insane for me!  So excuse my lack of posting if it comes to that!

May 18th, 2010

Giving Birth with Confidence

I have kept this little secret under wraps for a bit, but since the project is finally up and running, I wanted to share my excitement with all of my readers!  As most of you know, I am working towards becoming a Lamaze childbirth educator.

I had spoke with Amy Romano, one of the authors of Science and Sensibility a while ago about documenting my experience through this for Lamaze. That is when I learned Lamaze was going to be launching the Giving Birth with Confidence site.  Blog posts, and tons of resources for new mothers, and pregnant women.

After e-mailing the woman in charge, I was in!  Talk about total excitement!  Writing right next to Judith Lothian, talk about a total dream come true!

I can’t wait for my first post to go up within the next couple days. It is a mini introduction to who I am, and why I decided to make the choice to become a childbirth educator, while incorporating my own birth experiences.  I really feel like this is going to be an awesome project to be working on, and it is a very positive resource for pregnant women, and new mothers.

February 26th, 2010

Passion for Birth Training

I want to thank everyone who chimed in on my Journey to Becoming a Certified Childbirth Educator post. Your comments and suggestions were very helpful, and helped me to make my choice.

In the end I made the decision to opt to bring a Passion for Birth Training Workshop to Connecticut in hopes of filling the class and being able to have the $395 fee for myself waived. And the best part of it all is I am going to have Robin Elise Weiss coming all the way to Connecticut to teach the workshop, so it is an even bigger score on top of it!

While I wish I could start the process much sooner, we have set the date for the workshop for late July. July 30th through August 1st to be exact.
It gives people a fair amount of time to sign up, and it gives me the hope of getting my 8 participants for the course in order to have my own fee waived!

If you live in Connecticut, or even in the tri-state area, and are interested in the course, you can e-mail me and I will be sure to pass along the full details of the class itself.

I am anxious for the summer now, as if all the snow we have been getting isn’t enough already.
I am looking forward to the new path this will take my life on, to become a Childbirth Educator, especially through Lamaze is something I have wanted to do, I just didn’t know if it would ever be something within reach.

On a side note, my first article was published in a major Connecticut new’s source yesterday, and on top of it, they asked me to continue writing for the same publication, as well as other offers from local media outlets for freelance work.  I am officially going from a SAHM to a WAHM. I am not sure how I feel about it yet, but I certainly know this will help to ease the money burden around our house, and take a good amount of stress off of my husband.
We are still playing catch up from when he was laid off, although right now we are “caught up” thanks to our tax return.

You can check out my article here : The Born Ultimatum