Motivation can come from the strangest of places

MOTIVATION

Where does it come from

Some say it comes from the GREAT of our time 

Some say it comes from their parents or kids or dog or cat or goldfish

Well this is my Dad - 81 on Tues and 1 of my many sister.........does that inspire or motivate you?????? In case I offend my sis check out her FB page Darling Buds

This year my motivation came from 1 place only.

4 YES 4 Kids and 8wks Holidays......................That would motivate anyone

So 5 days on and what have I done

• 34 Page HACCP complete and proof read.  As you can imagine this was tough so when I read it, you could easily see the nights were I worked late. One line read as follow 

'' Ensure the exterior of the premises is clean so as to avoid taking dirt in to the premises on your shoes or BOATS'' 

How many of you have a BOAT?????

• All 20 recipes have been finally set in stone and documented officially. I have been using these recipes for some time, but never gave them an official Revision Number. Now its finally done.

•  All arrangements are now in place to have my Nutritional, Shelf Life and Gluten Free Testing completed.   If anyone has a spare €5000 floating about please feel free to send it my way...... Testing is expensive.

Along with this we had speech therapy for a 6yr old (going on 15)

12yr old leaving primary.. and had to give gifts to Principal, Teacher, Resource Teacher, All 3 SNA's who helped him over the years..........  Needless to say I'm broke.

3 School reports to go through.

Copious amounts of used copies and books, which you are obliged to look through each and every page.

And 2 kids at the Doctor.

The House has been a little neglected... so today I will be mostly washing and cleaning and drinking lots of coffee, lots and lots of coffee.

Better get back to the work.... 5wks and 2 days to go till BIG LAUNCH. 

Will keep you all posted on progress. 

Wanna Be Entrepreneur - Mum - Carer - & Wife (occasionally)

Slowly Slowly - Catchy Monkey

You know that saying.... well it doesn't work.

Slowly Slowly gets nothing done sometimes.

Well 6mths into the year and not too much has been achieved.

BUT

I have been busy.

Most of it was spent filling in endless forms and ringing copias amounts of people to ensure my eldest gets his SNA next year when he moves to secondary school.

As his carer (He's Autistic) that is my priority...... But the plan has always been that I would start to set up a business and when the time was right and his care needs diminished I would have some form of career ahead of me... Hence the WANNA BE ENTREPRENEUR

SNA - SORTED

PRIMARY SCHOOL - AS OF TOMORROW HE IS FINISHED 

But that does mean that all my kids are finished and I am trying to run a business from home.

Summer holidays should be fun...................

But there are changes a foot

Recently I par-took in a Food Academy Course with Bord Bia  supervalu  Monaghan and Louth Enterprise Board and Musgrave in Cork

We successfully pitched and if all goes to PLAN we will be selling our products in 6 Supervalu stores from Aug 4th for 12wks.

So over the next 6 wks I will let you follow my journey.

Hopefully we achieve all the goals set and make the launch.

I don't expect it to be easy.................