Evil Scientist

Starting a business is hard work.(duh!) It is also fun hard work that takes my mind off of surgery coming up next month. I will admit that I have had a couple morbid thoughts about the whole new business/surgery thing. My main thought has been "I am spending a bit of money getting things ready and if I die, what will happen to it all?" That is horrible and morbid and I only typed it out here because sometimes I need to write something down to get it off my mind. Anyway, I have been getting excited about it all and can't wait to share with you what it is. I'd say most of you won't be interested in it other than to just see what I have been working on though.

My oldest daughter watched me work on some stuff for the new business. She watched me struggle with some of the label stuff and website stuff (was that a big enough hint that anyone could figure out what kind of business it is?) I worked with programs I didn't know and learned the best I could. What I couldn't figure out, I found another way to do. At the end, when I ended up with something pretty awesome, she remarked that I was very resourceful and stubborn (two words I often think about my 5 year old who has about the same personality as me...and drives me bananas sometimes because of it). She talked about the fact that she was proud of me for working so hard, proud of me for figuring it out when I began with no idea how to do it. That is something I hope my kids have learned from me. Even when things are hard, there is always a way to figure it out if you work hard enough and think creatively.

Besides all of that, the kids and I have been having fun doing summertime things. I love that they are home and hate that they ever have to go back to school. Yesterday it was amazingly hot out so we stayed in for most of the day. We pulled out these plastic chemistry supplies that my sister in law gave my son for Christmas when he wanted to be "an evil scientist". She intended for him to put colored water in them and play around making "potions". He has done that before and had a lot of fun, but this time I filled one with vinegar and gave him a teaspoon of baking soda to drop in. The older kids already knew what would happen, but he had no idea before he saw the "volcano". He thought this was the coolest thing in the world. We made quite a mess, but it sure was a fun mess!