Last night after baseball practice, I made the boys take a shower. Brendan had no soap, and the nearest bar of soap was in the other bathroom. Fortunately, I happened to have a bottle of liquid soap sitting on the countertop. Does allowing my son to bathe in Dawn dish soap make me a bad mother?

I’ve been sooooo busy! Excuses, excuses. I know. And I’ve been putting a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into the biz these past few weeks.

The collaboration project I wrote about last time has turned out better than I ever imagined. Talking about money seems to be taboo, so I won’t mention my numbers here. I will just say I had a few days where I felt more like a sweat shop than an entrepreneur, but it has been well worth it. Plus, it has given me a much needed shot of confidence to pursue other wholesale accounts. Now that I’ve had a taste of what wholesaling can do for my business, I’m hungry for more.

The one part I am not enjoying about having some success is tracking money. Blah. There are so many accounting programs to choose from, but they’re all so confusing. Nothing seems to meet my needs well. I’m very tempted to handwrite my records in a notebook, but I can already imagine the headaches that would follow.

I have lots of projects and ideas I’m working on right now because of this recent growth spurt. Top of my list is getting some more wholesale accounts. (Told you I was hungry!) I need to make some decisions about changes to my printed materials. I would like revise some of the writing on the site and I need to add some more photos. I’m going to integrate a newsletter and proper blog onto the site. Marketing and advertising is, of course, always in progress. And then at some point, I would like to work on building my existing collections and introducing a new one.

I like being busy, but I’m out of practice. I need to re-learn time management, and fast!