No room to think, if I had it would it matter...

I find the record keeping part of business the most challenging, especially with children around. You need space to actively think when doing finances - physical and mental. Between the endless river of conversation that is my 5 year old and the mischievous nature of my two year old when surrounded by piles of paper, there is no way to carve out bookkeeping time while the girls are around. This is why I tend to go long periods of time before entering orders and receipts into the dreaded Quickbooks. I try to be practical when entering long overdue receipts and orders - I consider myself a level headed, common sense kind of girl. So why does everything seem so complicated with this accounting system? You take money in...money goes out...I enter the transactions and get back a mess of information that does not seem even vaguely familiar. When this merger with BabyLegs and Woobee is complete I will NOT be sad to see this duty go far far away.

Summer?

I wonder if it's summer anywhere else in the world? Here in Seattle it still seems to be tittering on the edge of springtime and my girls are sooooo ready for nakie bottoms and beaches! Where is the smell of sweet sun kissed skin, mildewing bathing suits and ripe strawberries? Don't get me wrong, as an owner of a weather resistant baby blanket company I am ecstatic the public still has their Woobees attached to the front of their strollers/Bjorns - it does makes me warm and fuzzy every time I see a Woobee in use. July however, is right around the corner and temperatures aren't breaking 70. Enough is enough. Tonight I will have to turn on the Happy Feet Soundtrack and do a sun dance!

Whew, what a wild ride....

Sorry I've been away so long. I am making a commitment to write at least three times a week so keep checkin' in and bugging me if I am slacking.

I have been such a crazy tattered mompreneur for the last month. First of all we have been cycling through the flu...and it has been a doozy - yuck! I truly dislike holding my daughters already thin body while she is heaving into the toilet (if I am lucky) or having my 2 year old puke all over me numerous times. I feel so badly for the them, feeling their quivering little bodies, seeing the looks on their faces & trying to calm them down. I saw more puke this last month than I did in my twenties...and I was pretty naughty in my twenties.

Another reason for my craziness - I hired a PR company called 32Flavors PR. Liz Sorensen is my rep and I love her. I could see myself having coffee or a glass of wine with Liz. I picked her company because I like her sense of style, she's a mom, and she also dabbles in a children's company of her own Luna Lou. I haven't been able to judge her work with Woobee since we just signed the contract and I just sent out my new press kits to her. Hopefully she likes them and will find good responsive homes for them:) I gotta say, it was incredibly time consuming putting the kits together. I thought it would be easy since I had some for JPMA, but these are Cd's and paper copies.

The cherry on top of my tattered mom insanity, myself (Woobee) and another wonderful mom owned company called BellySock (Deb is the owner) http://www.bellysock.com/ are in the process of having a manufacturing & distribution contract drawn up with yet another incredible mom owned company called BabyLegs http://www.babylegs.net/. Nicole Donnelly is the mom owner of the fast growing company BabyLegs who invited us to join her company and utilize all the sources/connections BabyLegs now has. Deb and I are both excited to have much of the workload and financial worry lifted off our backs. BabyLegs has an amazing network for us to move into as well as manufacturing connections with Fair Trade facilities. Deb and I will both still own 100% of our companies and are now working for BabyLegs as the business development manager (me) and quality assurance manager (Deb) as well as overseeing operations of Woobee and BellySock. Once a good solid contract is agreed upon and all the millions of little details are worked out, it will be a wonderful opportunity for all companies involved.

Hope you all are having much success in all areas of your lives! I'll keep you posted on mine.