What If?

It's been 6 mos since I announced that I started a NEW business!! At the time, I was thinking....am I crazy? Do I have the time? Do I really need the money??? Many of my blog-followers have asked me over the last few months how it is going?? And now, I'm so excited to share what has happened since I started in January!!
What if we had been an initial investor with Proactiv Solution when it came out in the 1980s???? and WHAT IF I was able to profit off of just a LITTLE of their exploding skincare line??? But...back then, it wasn't even an option b/c Proactiv was "launched" only thru infomercials. That's how the company made money - thru infomercials. We've all watched it over the years and NOW celebrities like Alicia Keys, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry are users and spokespeople for Proactiv!!!!
Rodan & Fields came out with a NEW line of skincare - for Anti-Aging and Sundamage - and it was in high-end department stores from 2001-2007...and it was the #1 selling product line in Nordstroms. In 2008, the doctors said, what if we brought dermatology to the masses???? There isn't a Nordstroms in or Greenwood, Mississippi or Fairhope, AL!! So....that's when they decided to enter Direct Sales and use consultants around the country to promote these amazing products!! The best part?? They didn't have to do ANY advertising!! Beauty Editors found them!! Allure Magazine, Lucky Magazine, the Today Show.....all FREE kudos to R&F new products!! Unsolicited advertisement!!! Isn't that the best kind??? Since R&F was launched into Direct Sales in 2008, the company has grown 800%!!!!! Think they made the right move??? So, I'm not waiting to ask myself WHAT IF I had become an initial investor in R&F this time!! I invested. I produced. I profit!!!!!
So, since January, I am LOVING this "job". I still work full time for now in the schools and still prn for local home health agencies but can still work this job in and be very successful at it I might add. I am currently a Level V consultant and have 8 Executive Consultants activley under me at this time!! And my paychecks have increased each month since I started!! AND My team is continuing to grow.

I am so proud of everyone and even my personal customers are so supportive and wonderful. I love watching my team's paychecks grow too - and help people quit their jobs that they've hated for years and stay home with their kids - or help out with household bills - or pay for a much-needed trip away with the husband!! My "job" has been everything I wanted it to be when I signed on. I don't work HARD. I work SMART. And my "work" involves having coffee/lunch/dinner with friends and catching up with old buddies. Can you even consider that work?

So.....I don't have to ask myself "What If" anymore. I'm asking "When"? And btw - our company is about to go GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL!!! Can you imagine where my team can grow then??????? So if you are reading this and want to ask me more questions about it....I'm an open book!! Contact me!! :)

Piano recital 2011

Floyd and Anne Craig take piano from Janice Shanks who is an absolutely wonderful piano teacher. They are able to take at school which is an added plus. Janice usually gets her students to basically "dress the part" of their particular pieces. Floyd's was "El Torrito" and Anne Craig's was "I've Got Music"....hense the specific costumes. We were very proud of each of them.

With Cole and Graydon

Posing

We love Mrs. Shanks

So proud

Let's get ready to TUUUUMBLE!!

On our way to gym recital! Anne Craig did a great job and it's always fun to watch her do her many activites. We are very proud of you.

Deer Valley 2011

We are so blessed that Dad and Jane take our family skiing each Spring! It is such a fabulous trip each year and what a wonderful way to really spend time together with siblings and cousins that you don't see but every so often. It's a great time for the Floyd Melton Family and The McLean Trotter Family to reconnect and catch up doing a sport that we have all grown up loving! Thanks again Papa and Jane for a fabulous trip! Can't wait for February 2012!! Cheers!
Let's gear up!

Mary McLean, Anne Craig and Patten

Group shot with Bubbsie!!

The big kiddos!!

Floyd looking "FLY" in his ski outfit!! (Thank you Brewer)

Flat Stanley came along too

Anne Craig ready for the slopes!

Me and Dad

Lisa D. and McLean ran into old friends, The McCraney's, out there!

Me and Floyd

Papa and the older grands!

Getting warm!


Yummy Lunch!!

Mama Toes/Daughter Toes OR aka: Old Feet/Young Feet

Happy #8 Birthday Sweet Anne Craig

Seriously....I can't believe my baby is EIGHT YEARS OLD! Where on this good Earth does the time go?? I must say we never waste a minute and Anne Craig always likes to go and do and have a great time. She's sooo fun and such a sweet heart. In typical birthday fashion here's what's up in her world these days!!

I AM....going to be in 3rd grade
I WAS....in New York
I HAVE.... a Barbie camper
I PLAY....soccer, tennis and basketball
I WORRY....about my family
I KNOW....how to play the piano
I WATCH....Floyd play baseball
I WANT....an Ipad
I CRAVE....chicken
I USUALLY.... do gymnastics
I REMEMBER....to be a good sport
I DISLIKE....stormy weather
I GO....to Pillow Academy
I WENT....to the beach
I CAN.... roller skate
I DON'T....get mad easily
I FEEL....cheerful
I DANCE....at Martha Geeslin's
I READ....a lot of books for book club
I WRITE....thank you notes
I BELIEVE....Santa Clause
I AM SCARED.... of robbers
I LISTEN....to my teachers and Luke Brian's "Country Girl"
I WISH....I could live at the beach
I LOVE....my family
I AM HAPPY....that we can travel
I AM THANKFUL....for God and the Earth

I took some of Anne Craig's girlfriends to Papa's house to swim in Belzoni on the afternoon on her actual birthday, May 26. We ate chicken tenders of course (Anne Craig's favorite). Everyone had a ball. Thanks to my sweet friend, Lizzie Powers, for going with me and driving some of the girls. It was a very successful birthday indeed.

I know I know.....there is really no excuse like little or no time!

Seriously.....for those of you that really know me KNOW that I'm NOT a SLACKER. Nope indeed but trying to find the time to blog in the past 3 months has been tough. I do love my blog and as OCD as I am this "little or not time to blog" has been a major obstacle to overcome. I hope to take these next 6 weeks before I return to my main job and do a whirlwind catch up blog posts of sorts. Please bear with me...it probably won't be pretty but it's gonna get done dammit! Here's the breakdown of my outline in order. I list this to mainly put pressure on myself to be dang sure it get's done. Here goes: Floyd birthday (yes, it was February I know) follow up party pics, oil portrait, Mama and the Delta Rockers, 2nd grade play, Spring Break, Easter, Dance Recital, New York City trip, Anne Craig's 8th bday party, and Floyd's trip to DC/Gettysburg.
So as you can see it's not as though we've just been sitting around! And those are just the highlights. I could triple that with blog worthy events put into words but will spare my readers....this time! I hope everyone is having a splendid summer. I wish it would rain because I'm tired of watering my yard. P.S. I'm starting a savings account strictly for a future sprinkler system. LAWDY!