It’s been rough up here in Chicago-land. There’s been a lot of fraud, so our bank completely stopped all debit activity in the area. The really bad part was the fact that we found out when we had NO cash and I was out with some other homeschoolers for lunch. I tried to pay for our lunch and the debit card was denied. OUCH! One of the other moms helped us out and even bought the kids some cookies later. We’ve made it through, but it has really made it hard.
As for the sales of my rice-heating pads. I’ve sold 3 of them so far. I made some for 2 of Jeremy’s co-workers’ wives during their pregnancies, so a few others there have seen or heard of them. Another of Jeremy’s co-workers was my first customer. She bought 2 for herself (one for home and one to stay at work) and one for a gift. I think word of mouth will be the easiest way of getting the news out there about these. At the moment, I have 12 regular ones sewn up and ready. (4 yellow, 3 purple, 3 flower, 1 basketball, 1 cream) I have some more purple and cream material to sew up to make more regular size ones. Then I want to see which ones I have enough of to make small sizes with and will probably sew some of those. I saw some HSM3 flannel when I went in last time and some other kid prints that I was thinking would be good for the small packs because the small ones are really great as cold packs. I had heard you could use a rice pack as a cold compress, but decided to find out myself, so I made a small pack for us and stuck it in the freezer. The kids used to balk at putting ice or other cold packs with liquid in them on their boo-boos because they were too cold. The rice pack doesn’t get too cold. My kids have used it often. I’m pretty sure it is needed at least once a week. Last time used… yesterday when Amie’s fingers got smashed.
I love going to my chiropractor. I just thought I’d tell you all that. I had lower back pain for the longest time. My freshman year in college, I got pulled out by another girl and slipped on ice and my lower back just never felt right after that. I haven’t had much lower back pain in the last few weeks and I’m loving it! I’m also having less shoulder pain. Also, since I do exercises there at the office, I’ve been getting more exercise than I normally would at this time of year. I’ve been sleeping more at night and taking less naps. I feel more energetic than I used to. I wish I’d had insurance that would have covered this long ago.
AND… um… I think that’s all I can think of for now.
Oh wait. I need to do a shout out: HI SARAH!! I can’t wait to see you at Christmas time! JILL, it’s only a few more weeks and I can see you and my nieces and nephew. I can’t wait to sing with/to them. MOM, I’m looking forward to some Christmas Caroling. COLWYN and ANGIE, thanks for just being silly friends. Some days that’s all I need.