I’m focused on my biz goals and I’m already working on hitting some even though it’s only the 12. I started building some in December so I’m off to a running start. Plus once I finally chose to move forward it’s been pretty easy to get my coaching program going.  Testers=check, beta testers=next step, then coaching program launched fully in different levels=a month later.

I’ve been doing great proofreading and tweaking as things go. It’s awesome to have some initial testers that will give me honest feedback.  It’s made it much easier to come up with workpages and lists for the clients to return to me.

I’m not sure if it’s because it’s the start of a new year, because most of my regular shows are on hiatus, or because I’m finally fed up with some unfinished projects around the house, but I’m totally addicted to HGTV right now. I just created a list of everything I can think of that needs to be done both big and small. Most would call it a honey-do list but honestly that’s not the case. There are only a couple of things on it that I wouldn’t tackle myself but if I had to I could figure it out. It’s a list for myself and if hubby wants to jump in on some of the list then all the better.

Happy New Year!

Yeah, day late, dollar short, whutevah. I’m happy to be able to report that for the most part I actually took time off. Yes, it was only for the most part.  I just couldn’t help myself and set up a new coaching program that went live today for one of my testers and will go out in beta on January 16. If you want to be notified when the sign up starts you can check out Internet Marketing Cleanup.

Busy Day, Busy Momma…DUH lol Why should my blogiversary be any different right? lol So I’m posting my bday post the day after. Seems quite fitting!

It’s amazing to think that busymomma.com started in 2004 on a silly little blogger blog. I needed a place to vent and everyone was using blogger so I figured why not. A monster was born there but not perfected.

See around the net since 1999 I’ve always been busymomma. It was easy to come up with my personal blog domain name because that was always what I was signing as. lol It was and may be more my signature still, rather than my actual name. I think facebook has changed that some but my twitter account is still much larger and I’m Busy Momma Val there.

This is a picture of my son’s pumpkin he carved. It glows pretty cool doesn’t it?

Halloween is quiet at my house. I’ve had two trick-or-treaters and it’s 8:40pm. I don’t think the hordes are going to arrive any time soon. I’m glad we didn’t buy too much candy and really not any of my favorites. I snagged a bag of tootsie roll pops but those things can be stored for years as long as it’s a dry environment. Yes, I know this for fact

Tons of things are changing. I’m going to get a little redesign this summer as this theme is not as friendly as so many others I’ve used.

I’ll be going through posts and setting some of the really personal posts to private. Not something most of you will notice I’m sure.

The biggest thing that will change is it’s use. It will be used again. I’ve sold off or deleted many sites and blogs in the last few months. I’ve been focusing more and it’s been so productive. I’ve learned a lot over the years. The last 4 years have been a constant roller coaster as family dynamics and jobs changed our lives immensely. But I’ve had tremendous clarity in the last 6 months and it shows in the growth of my businesses.

How fun is this?! I downloaded the wordpress app a few months ago but haven’t really used it. It’s very convenient, I just wasn’t set up to use all my battery power at wrestling tournaments and other days I just haven’t needed it.

But it’s spring and all that will be changing. Daughters in track and football starts in a couple weeks for the boy. I’m blogging from the car line waiting to pick him up for appt. The busier the family gets, the more I get discouraged about time wasted waiting.

Why yes “proudness” is a word. lol  Did you understand what it meant?  Then it’s a word.

I made it 5 out of 7 days so far on my workouts.  I still have Sunday, but honestly it’s not looking like I’ll have time to workout Sunday.  Have some plans with my in-laws that I’m looking forward to.  Considering I only needed to workout 3 days this week, I’m already at a great number

By my own high standards?  Not even close.  My workouts were what they were set to be.  Get there and get it done.  I never went there to kick it this week, just getting there was a miracle.

I may not be updating much, but I have come to the conclusion with what I am doing with this site.  Did you guess from the title?

This blog is my personal blog.  It’s all me and it’s my place to share things that don’t belong on my biz sites and things I keep to myself too much.  Things that I wish I had others to talk to about who are in the same boat.  Which means that there is someone else out there that may give a damn about hearing how I’ve coped with things.  Or there may no one that cares and either way I don’t give a fuck.

It has become official that I needed my time away from training.  I was not taking care of myself and I was letting everyone else’s issues bog down with my own.  This started about 2 years ago and it just got worse and worse.  Life stepped in and I haven’t had any training clients in almost a year.  I was glad then and I’m glad now that I have had time to work on myself.  I’m not perfect by any means and it’s taken me a really long time to work through things and move forward.  At least I feel like I’m moving forward.