I had the pleasure of having McKenna and her friend Dylan overnight last night.   

They had a great time.  They spent the night with us.  Both didn’t get a nap, and they finally decided they’d had enough fun with each other to give it up and go to sleep around 10:30.

Today, I was going to go to watch Alex play baseball today down in Fort Smith, but when I went to go, I didn’t have my car keys.  Bryan did, and he flew this morning to see his brother.  So I go to use my other car, the one that was driven behind the coach on the Florida trip.  It was dead.  Poor thing probably needs a new battery.  

Anyway, so making lemonade out of lemons, I’m going to be taking some classes on blogging, and on YouTube.  One of the challenges is to make a video and to post on Facebook.  I did it.  It’s harder than one would think.  It’s done.  Talk about getting out of my comfort zone.  But if you don’t grow, you won’t glow! Just kidding.  

Someone said you don’t have to be GREAT to start, you you have to START to be Great.  

This morning I woke up to the cough that Bryan has.  I’m thinking, I sure am glad that I don’t have to go to a job today.  I do have little Adam, my grandson who is a week apart from Mckenna.  They are both turning 3.

I am lucky in the fact that the path I have chosen, allows me to decide my time line.  I’ve always been an entrepreneur at heart.  I remember when I was little at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house for get togethers.  All the Men would go to one end of the house, my Grandpas more manly side and the women would go to the more feminine side of the house.  I was the oldest of 5 kids, and my uncle had 4 kids.  Guess where you would find me?    I’d be sitting right next to my Grandpa and all his brothers, talking business.

My Grandpa invented the auger system, to bring coal up where they needed it.  They built their own home and after my Grandma died, I found out they were considered well off.  As a kid, I never felt that attitude from them.  Anyway, getting off my subject, I wanted to be just like them.  

I kinda am, in the sense that I don’t have to work.  I’ve always worked.  I don’t really consider babysitting work! That’s pleasure with a small monitary  bonus!  

Since starting the Enagic water business, not just drinking the water for over a year, but actually making the commitment to share the water, I feel like I have benefited so much.  As you know, I didn’t want any part of it.  I just stumbled onto making 280.00 on a machine, for doing basically nothing in my mind.

Some people think I’m crazy, but forget them.  Who cares if somebody thinks your crazy.  It’s really just thinking outside the box and as I call it, feeding the adrenaline junkie which I now know is alive and well, and stronger than ever inside me!

When I made the 280.00 per machine, I thought, wow, I can do this.  But this time, I’m going to only use the money I get from the company, and turn it back into building the business.  Like Business cards, labels for the jugs, the water bottle I drink out of, and most importantly, a website that offers the customer or client, to be able to purchase the machine, from anywhere in the world!  The EWS website only cost 30.00 a month.  When I did real estate I was paying 300.00 a month for similar.  So I used my first commission on purchasing the website for a year at 300.00 saving money, but also elimating the stress of the money going out every month.

I played with it for awhile and then got with Eric at EWS.  I watched his videos, that teach you how to do social media, to drive traffic to the website.  This has been an amazing journey so far, and the best is yet to come.  Even if all of this didn’t work out, the knowledge I’ve learned so far could be turned into a lucrative business, helping other businesses do the same.

Don’t you just love Win-Win situations!

No McKenna on Monday or today!  She’s now going to day care.  She’s been such a big part of my life the last almost 3 years.  I love her to pieces, and it’s such a, let’s say new quiet experience! (Except for Molly, our Maltice!)

Today I got my teeth cleaned (always fun) not! And my eyes examined.  All is good.  My eyes are the same, I was hoping for, my eyes were better.  My teeth are great and she’s seeing improvement in my gums from rinsing with the 2.5 Kangen water after brushing.  As a kid I had gum disease and it plagued me into adulthood, till I started seeing Dr. Marcus Black who is totally awesome and I wouldn’t let anyone else touch them.

Yesterday, I got a lot done, including ordering my new Anespa, by Enagic Kangen Water Co.  I have not tried one, and my belief system is, you can’t sell what you yourself personally, haven’t tried.  How many receptionists do you know, that when you ask them if they have tried what ever “it” is and they say no.  Really?  How can they possibly share in your excitement, if they haven’t tried it.  That’s why I purchased the Anespa.  It’s supposed to be like a hot springs mineral bath.  I don’t know that for a fact, but I will soon and let you know.  Others swear by it, saying it helps skin rashes, brown spots, freckles (which seems a stretch to me but we’ll see).  You can look on the website, and see what it says about it.  Www.alkalizingyourwater.com and sign up for the free Ebook.  If you do, I’ll send you a million dollars, not! 

 We went to the Hot Spring pools in the South Island of New Zealand.  It was beautiful and about 60ish degrees.  It was so nice in the pools, till it was time to get out!  OMG, that part was awful.  I was shaking, I ran in to get a warm shower.  Here, it will be nice and warm in my own bathroom. Yay!  If you live around me, I will let you try it out at your own home.  Who knows, you too may want one.  (I’m starting to sound like a commercial! Lol.

 Oops, hold on….

I was interrupted by the door.  It was the guys putting on the shingles on the roof.  We had hail a while back.  They looked sad.  I asked what’s up, they told me that a pack of the shingles fell down and broke my black (almost 400.00) flower pot that I was going to try to get planted soon.  

Check that off my to do list.  

Bryan had opened the garage door so the guys could take a picture of the Fisker (electric hybrid sports car).  The pot and dirt were sitting inches away from the car.  In the grand scheme of things, my flower pot took one for the team.  The guys felt really bad and helped me clean it all up.  All is good.  I gave them my blog info and business card incase they got fired when they got back to work! Just kidding about being fired.  We would never do that to anybody, but we sure know people who would.  It’s not like he said, here, let’s throw this on the black pot.  Anyway, I’m just so thankful they both helped to clean up the mess.  

Speaking of thankful, I really appreciate the people who are following my blog.  Thanks to those even out of the States.  Wordpress has stats, and I’m just so happy that you are taking the time to read this.  

Whether your thinking I’m just nuts or kinda cool, I appreciate you either way.    Remember, you can leave a comment, good or bad, it won’t stop me.  Have a great night!

Reflecting on the the past few months, I feel truly blessed!  I know that God has great things in store for me. (Hopefully for those around me and those who dare to follow me in my water venture as well)

Anyone who knows me, I’ve had McKenna since she was a tiny baby, while Mommy and Daddy have been at work.  I love her soooo much and her and I have been connected at the hip.  She is soon going to be three, on May 3rd actually!  She is smart as a 5-6 year old.  I’ve had people ask me, is she in school?  She is quite tall for her age since Mommy is tall too.

Readers of my blog will know she was with me on our trip to FL, along with her friend Melody.  They are best friends. Melody has two older brothers who like to pick on her, and she’s learned how to pick back quite well.  McKenna on the other hand is an only child, who hasn’t had to share or compete for Grandmas attention.  Get the picture?  We survived the trip, ok.  Everyone still loves everyone, at least I think so. 😀

So, we learned some things from this trip.  Mommy and Daddy wanted to have dinner with us Friday night and it was great!  After we were done, Daddy has to bring up a subject they didn’t know how I was going to react to.

Before I tell you what the subject was, let me tell you about my Friday.  The night before we had dinner with friends of ours from Bentonville Towing, Darrel and Carrie.  It was great, in conversation the subject of the water came up.  I offered to take her a couple of jugs on Friday and drop them at her office.  Well, I don’t have McKenna on Fridays, and when I dropped off the water, both Darrell and Carrie were there.  They were asking me questions and I showed them my EWS website and a video on the website.  She asked him if they could buy a machine, and he said, if we do I don’t want to see you buy any more of that bottled water.  She agreed.  I just smiled.  It was cute watching them together.  So basically a few clicks on the website and her machine is on the way.  She favorited the website and went in to buy one of the really nice water Kor bottles with Enagic on it.  I was so happy for them to be able to have a machine (SD501p) too.

I’m thinking man, I’d love to have more time to spend doing this!  When I’m with McKenna, it’s all about her! Which I love, but made me think, wow, what could I do with more time!

Back to dinner Friday night.  Daddy was thanking me for everything I’ve done for their precious little girl, BUT

They think it’s time she be able to go to day care to learn to be with other kids.  OH Man, I can’t tell you how relieved I was when they said that.  It’s the one thing Grandma can’t give her, and our trip showed me how much she needed exactly that.  Isn’t God great, how every step is carefully planned and we don’t know the plan until we can look back in the rear view mirror?  

So I can have her if there’s something I want to do, but that I can think about my life now.  So if you would like to follow me on my new journey, please do. Check out my website www.alkalizingyourwater.com  If not, it’s ok too.  We just need to enjoy life and each other.  Life is Good

I’d like to just take a minute out of our travel day, to send thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of all those who died on that day.  May God help get you through each day, because no words can help the loss of a loved one.  It’s s journey, and one that only you can decide how it goes.  Anger, or Greatfulness.  I chose gratefulness and hope you can to.  Please feel free to comment here.  Sometimes writing, helps. Love to all