CPRMom

I love having a blog, I love writing.  The challenge is that lately I have less and less time to write. I own 2 small businesses. When things get busy some things get pushed to the side.  Writing in my blogs is one of them. Last October the 2015 Guidelines for CPR & First Aid were released.  Shortly thereafter a price increase for training materials was announced. Since then I have been taking instructor update courses and preparing for a price increase in my courses.  I've also been teaching and awful lot.  Awful lot is my term for, well... quite a few classes.  It's my generic term for, well, quite a few or an awful lot, of classes on my schedule.  You see, in addition to my community courses, I teach courses for businesses and organizations.  I've been traveling quite a bit the past few months and next month is shaping up to be just as busy. What this means is my blogs get neglected. :(  For example, I started this post 2 days ...

Every March 15th we say this.  This morning I was wondering... what exactly does Ides mean?  What is an Ide?  Or is the singular Ides?  I think it means something like mid or middle... Inquiring minds want to know. So I looked it up.  Google is always a good friend when I'm curious about something. According to Dictionary.com , Ides comes from the Latin word idus , roughly marking the 15th day of March, July & October and the 13th day of the other months of the year.  It's the halfway point of each month.   The Ides of March is a metaphor for impending doom.  Julius Caeser ignored the warning "Beware the Ides of March" and was stabbed in the back on March 15, 44 BC - also giving us the term backstabber. This is just my summarized version, use the link above to read the full explanation.

I think we all start the new year off with resolutions, goals or just really good intentions.  And then, well, life just gets in the way. One of my 2016 goals was to blog more.  And well, you can see where I'm at with that. Part of my excuse is that I am currently spinning in circles.  I came down with a mild head cold in early January.  I laid low, rested, drank fluids, and was back at full steam in just a few days.  But I also jumped right into a new exercise routine, got busy, forgot to keep up with the fluids... and relapsed into a miserable head and chest cold that lasted almost a week.  I can't think clearly when I'm sick so a lot of things did not get done. But enough about my whining. At this exact moment, I am sitting at my computer, it's snowing outside, the littles are up and we have our first snow day of the school year.  I'm not subbing because of the snow day.  Good day to get caught up on blogging right?  Except I'm still...

Several months ago I entered a meme contest.... and I won!  I had several entries and I realized today I never posted all of them or my winning entry.  So here it is.

So I stirred up quite a conversation on my Facebook wall yesterday when I posted: Got this line in an email today: "it's just that we don't prepay anything we always wait to receive the services and then we pay just like anything else in life for the most part." Think I can use that to pay for college? A few of my friends replied with: Please tell me this person was no older than 16. People just don't understand that the person performing the services has to make the commitment ahead of time to be there so the people attending have to make the investment ahead of time. It is an investment, often with those you do not see the return immediately I attend many seminars and trainings as a nurse and as an educator myself and it's always prepaid. Sorry Gail. I think you should require prepayment in the event no one shows you still ought to be paid in full. Good luck! Have to say..I've always had to prepay (Both for business and personal commitments)...

Lately, I've been receiving some new newsletters in my inbox, from businesses that I have really no idea who they are.  It took me a few weeks to figure it out why I was receiving them. I had attended a networking meeting. Co-incidentally I had also been receiving some FB friend requests from people I did not know.  Turns out they were from the same networking group. So here's the thing;  If I don't know you personally I'm not going to accept your friend request.  Nothing personal, it's just that I try to keep my business and my personal life separate online.  If you want to know more about my business then please like and follow one of my FB business pages or check out one of my blogs.  It's also a good idea to actually meet in person and introduce yourself, again in person, rather than blindly sending out FB friend requests. Also, just because you are in the same room with someone, and have access to their business card, does not mean you can add ...

After a summer/fall hiatus CPR by Donation is back! Things got really busy this summer with my kids.  We planned our first serious family vacation around a college touring schedule for my eldest daughter.  I also volunteered and worked at 2 different summer camps.  This was my first paid camp position and I had a super fun time! The school year started off with a bang and a lot of on-site class bookings.  With so many classes it just was impossible to add more to my calendar! But as the dust of a busy Fall settles, I'm thrilled to be able bring CPR by Donation back later this month!  The program will still run roughly every other month beginning in 2016. For information on the program and to register for the next course on November 21st please visit my CPR by Donation webpage.