What Began This Change?

As I said, for over 25 years I provided daycare services in my home and loved every minute of it! Well almost every minute if the truth be told. Now mind you, I loved most all of the children and had some really great parent's as clients ... what you must understand is that it is a very isolating career. You are in the same house in which you live for some days as much as 12 hours with the excursion of the day being the walk down the driveway to the mailbox!! But I am a very patient and pretty loving person, so it was not that hard, after all, I managed for 25 years!!
June 11, 2008, I had gastric by-pass surgery and in 10 month's time lost over 160 pounds. I was always a pretty active person staying involved in volunteering at church and with Relay For Life and stayed on the go ... but after loosing the weight, I found it harder and harder being cooped up in the house day after day ... I wanted to get out and about. I made the career choice last summer to begin watching only children of school teacher's giving me the same breaks my grandchildren had including summer's off thinking that would help with the feeling of confinement. This summer I had the opportunity to make some changes and get out of the daycare business completely ... so I did!
The biggest challenge was deciding what I wanted to do. I read through the classified adds, searched the Internet but could not find anything that fit my bio ... a 54 year old female with no experience or education other than providing babysitting services. So I had to think out of the box. And that's exactly what I have done!!
Now I'm not saying it has been easy making these changes. There already have been challenges and I'm only a couple of months in it, but I am happy to be embarking on a new part of my life as I get my not one ... but two businesses up and running.
I encourage anyone thinking about starting a new career, or a new business to take the plunge! I would not recommend quiting your job to start up a new one unless you have the funds to support yourself in the interim ... but the joys I have received so far and it's early in the process are more than I could have imagined!
In the days/weeks/months to come I hope to share my challenges, what I learn along the way, my successes and my fears as I walk this road to the new me, the new life the new career.