Dreams Unveiled

Oh, geez- I almost forgot to tell you!

We signed a lease! We are moving into a 2 bedroom townhouse with a basement, literally a 2 minute drive from our current apartment- right on Godown (Kenny) Road. It has BRAND new tiles in kitchen and bathrooms, brand new windows, a walk-in pantry, storage closets and obviously ample room in the basement for storage. The basement is divided by a wall, separating the storage/laundry area from the rest. It's not finished, but a previous tenant put in a ceiling, so with a little cheap carpet and a rug it will be A-OK. I'm pretty pumped for the extra space! I'm turning the basement area into a work space for my future plans, which I've not yet unveiled in its entirety. And what better time?

I am starting small (baby steps says Dr. Leo). My BIG-HUGE-WAY-IN-THE-FUTURE dream is to have a Daycare, Preschool, K-12 school and tutoring center all-in-one. Ever since Adry was born I have spent HOURS on this computer making ALL kinds of plans; paper work, CURRICULUM (which is a hard and long and involved and detailed job, omg), CPR/First Aid certification, legal research, and other business plans. I am going to launch my business (which I originally titled "Ellwood Enrichment" [or maybe EE for short] until I could find a better name, but I never came up with a better name, so that one just stuck. I am used to it, now...) by offering in-home daycare (ONE kid at the most) and tutoring services. Not gunna lie- I'm pretty psyched about setting up a little classroom, haha. I hope to spend one year, maybe two, saving up to rent a building so that I can become a certified daycare and tutoring center. Taking out loans is out of the question, so I would need to quadruple my business and hire help. THEEEN from there I will look into becoming a certified preschool, and so on. I AM SO EXCITED that we are finally moving and I will have the space to launch my dreams and everything I've worked so hard on this past year. I still need a few more planning months, and then I am golden to start getting clients. (I think you would call them clients? certainly not customers, right? Clients sounds weird.)

I've done in-home tutoring before, and right now I tutor at Kumon. I've kind of kept this whole dream on the DL so that I could make sure it would actually happen before I announced it to the world... it's almost here, though, so I feel pretty safe throwing it out there! YAY!

Oh yeah- Lent is over!

I almost forgot to post my last Lent entries!
Also, I'm not sure when the Easter entry will make its LJ appearance. We don't have our own internet at the moment; I am currently bunnyhopping my neighbors' Linksys, and the signal keeps going in and out, which is suck and makes is super hard to upload photobucket pics for the html codes.

Anyway, here are a few things:

Lent Day 36 (Tuesday, April 7)
My dad told me a story the other day. I liked it so much that I googled it, and decided to document it for myself, and share it with you:

---As part of his search, (John Kavanaugh) volunteered to work for three months at "The House of the Dying" in Calcutta, India, a place founded by Mother Teresa. The very first morning he was there, Kavanaugh met Mother Teresa. She asked him, “What can I do for you?” He paused to think and then asked that she pray for him. “What do you want me to pray for?” she wondered. “Pray," he said, "that I have clarity.” Her abrupt response took him aback. “No," she told him, "I will not do that.” When he asked why not, she told him, “Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of.” When Mr. Kavanaugh observed that she seemed to have the kind of clarity he wanted, she laughed out loud and told him, “I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.”---

Why is it so easy to forget that we lean not on our own understanding? We burden ourselves with trying to figure it all out and know exactly what we are “meant” to do…

“Many a Christian worker has left Jesus Christ alone and gone into work from a sense of duty […] The reason for this is the absence of the resurrection life of Jesus. The soul has got out of intimate contact with God by leaning to its own religious understanding.”

Lent Day 39 (Friday, April 10)
UGH, I am having the most terrible time choosing a BOY name! I tossed around the idea of Kyran, but Kyran sounds so….. I don’t know, untraditional. Perhaps because I completely made it up. I am a huge fan of traditional boy names (how my son came to be Adryel, I still have no clue. Ben prophesied it, so I blame him. However, Adry’s first name IS Benjamin), but ALL of the traditional boy names I love have been taken. Jacob- brother. Matthew- brother. Timothy- dad and brother. Caleb- cousin. Michael- mom’s dad and brother. Christopher- every other kid on the planet. SO, I decided to look up traditional biblical boy names and came across a few I thought were different, and maybe grow-on-me worthy:

Javan
Tobias
Elijah/Eli
…….and I’ll keep Kyran on the list.
I also like Cillian (but it reminds me of the beer- boo!), Jayden (but it is sooo trendy), Silas, Micah.

Dang you, boys names! Why do you have to be so hard?! I need to just have 4 more girls. I love all my girl names.

GIVE ME some of your favorite boy names!!




My mom got Adry this OSU hat, and I think he looks cute in it. Now if we can just get him to keep it on.