oh man...this is going to hurt tomorrow...

i'm awake...yep worked until 3am and slept for 3 hours and now i'm up again. i have what sailors call "channel fever". after a long deployment stuck on a boat with the same smelly guys they pull into the channel for shore leave the night before their official docking time...nobody can sleep because they are so excited about leave. i got "channel fever"... i am excited about my first trade show but i can't even set up for another 24 hours! i am loving AdvoCare product and am so excited to talk about it...

...but being up this early is going to hurt tomorrow!

are you ready to rock?!!!

ok, so i've known since i heard about AdvoCare at Women Of Faith that Michael W. Smith uses Advocare and is an endorser (has even done chapel for them at Success School), but i found out that Kutless uses AdvoCare too. no offense to mr. smith, but he doesn't need a ton of energy for sing-a-long with michael time...but kutless now they rock out!!!! and those boys love Slam for an energy boost!

do the shuffle!!!

ok, i can relate to a little disco, get down with your bad self, boogie time...how about you? what?! don't have the energy to get down after the day you've just had? well have i got a Slam for you! check out Bowl Berry Slam and enter for a chance to win one of 100 iPod shuffles!

http://advocarev100shuffle.com/

the best game in town!

wow! went to the AdvoCare nationwide event last night and am more excited than ever about the wonderful products that AdvoCare has to offer and the opportunity for business. i was blown away by the  med science board and the research and development team and standards! AdvoCare  products are certified "banned-substance free by Informed-Choice.org! athletes who are drug tested depend on supplements with no surprises and that's what AdvoCare offers...that why they have so many unpaid endorsers. it's great being associated with a company with such integrity!

what a way to start the day...

so this morning my clock radio went off as usual for work, but when i stumbled ( i never bound at 5:30 in the morning) to the bathroom the light wouldn't turn on, or the kitchen or my bedroom...but my radio just kept right on playing with no lights showing the time. so i pushed "off" to see if i could figure out my mysterious wake up call and realized it wouldn't go back on. i was kinda freaked out...it felt like God had woke me up with an instrumental of the doxology. (turns out it had a battery back up, but for a minute it was my own little miracle)  i couldn't shower in the dark or dry my hair so i just headed to work to get ready in our locker room.

soooooo, while i was in the locker room i stepped on the scale!!!!wow, it was like 20 lbs less than the last time i had stepped on the scale at work...i'm so brave!

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!

the boys and i just pulled in to our big Advocare adventure and our hotel is RIGHT NEXT TO IKEA!!! i could walk there, but i know i'd never be able to carry all my purchases back! i am so excited about the "Best Game in Town" Advocare meeting tomorrow! it's my first major meeting and i hope there's free stuff!

this weekend is my first trade show/craft show. i have been working and planning and my juices are flowing like crazy! keep your eys open for some big challenges and teams to get us moving toward our goals!!!

a business trip? a family getaway?

i have been struggling with a decision for several weeks. there is a big Advocare event next tuesday in livonia and i want to go, but don't want to be away from the boys for another evening. i love being with my boys and would have always been a stay at home mom if it had been my choice, but now i am away during work, we are apart during their activities and then when they go to their dads...i am very careful to protect our together time. so, i decided to have it all! we will go to a hotel near the event a day early and play in the pool, watch tv (which is huge deal since we don't have it at home) and eat pizza in the bed and maybe even go to Henry Ford Museum! i will go to the meeting for just a couple of hours and be right back to play the next day till we head home! this is probably what the flexibility of an Advocare business is suppose to look like.

purple rules!!!

i talked about Purple Champs once before, but i am so sold on them! jonathan and samuel have not asked for a fruit snack since they started having them. they love them and they are full of good stuff for them, DHA and vitamin C. gotta love something good for them that they love and i don't have to fight them to take!

urban chic...urban cheap?

i am always amazed by how much business is done at Starbucks, Panara Bread and other places like that. i wonder if anyone pays for office space any more or if everyone just works out of their home and "take a meeting at Starbuck" do they ever do this at old country buffet or is it just a coffee shop and bar kind of thing?

well, i'm taking a meeting at Starbucks tonight...boy do i feel goofy saying that...talking about Advocare...Spark-ing some business ideas :-)

go pink!

do you do monthly breast exams...do you tell your daughters to check monthly for lumps...do you insist your mom get a mamogram...do you? we can beat breast cancer in our life time...in the words of my friend amy...feel your boobs!

aughhhhh!

exercise! need i say more? i use to love to workout...i'd run three miles and then lift or do muscle building for another 45 minutes...i can't seem to get in the groove again. of course that was bc...(before children) and my life was different...not better, but different.

and i think exercise will be different too...today it was jumping on the tramp with sammy...yesterday we were all working in the yard and racing in the driveway...sometimes it's walking downtown seeing Artprize...measuring the length of noah's ark at the school down the street  while walking the dog...flying kites at the beach...playing wii together!

i guess it's not what i'm doing, but that i have the energy to do it again that counts...and it really is more fun with jon and sam!

but i really would like to run a 5K by june :-)

busy, busy, busy!!!

my life is full...is that an understatement or optimism? i am a single mom with two normal boys age 10 and 9 and i guess that pretty much defines many of my responsibilities...work (so we can eat and have a home), home schooling (so i can train up men to lead the next generation), volunteering with the boys to do child care for MOPS, violin, drama, Awana, flu shots, cooking & cleaning (probably not often enough!)...it just keeps going. although i try hard to not over schedule the boys, fall always seems crazy. my life is not that different from most women...women are busy! we help, care, support, comfort, nurture and play... most often for the good of others.

Advocare has made a huge difference in my energy level and strength. the problem is with my new energy i just have to remember to say no to new commitments so my life doesn't get even more crazy!