Wow! May was the last post!

So sorry to my fellow readers...all 4-5 of you! :)

Wildtree business has been taking off like crazy. Evidently, Wildtree isn't well known in the Twin Cities and there are many people wanting to try it! Business is good and the aformentioned fact definitely helps the business.

Juggling full-time work and the Wildtree business hasn't been too bad. I try to make sure I am not doing work during Julia's awake hours, so basically after 8pm on a few nights I am doing Wildtree work and then there are the occasional tastings on the weekdays. I try to do only 3 to a max of 4 per month. Usually only need 1-2 nights a week to keep up with the rest and then the rest is, well, rest time.

This fall we may enroll Julia in some tumbling/gymnastics classes just like her cousin Ainsley and of course we will continue the swimming lessons. Julia is such a fish; she LOVES the water. Yes, that is a big LOVE of water. Give her a pool and she will stay in it for hours! We went to a pool party a few weeks ago hosted by a doctor I work with. We arrived at 3pm and she was in the pool immediatly and didn't come out until I had to force her out to leave at 6pm. She wouldn't even come out to eat! Yup, a fish and a big water lover...takes after her mother.

I will seriously try to post pictures of our finished master bathroom that, yes, we had painted in February. Again, sorry for the major delay.

Hopefully more posts to come...

A New Adventure

Recently, I have decided to become a rep for this company:

Many people are asking "Why are you doing this job part-time as well as your full-time job and how do you have time to do this?" There are reasons for taking on this business that I will explain in the future, but I absolutely love the products! They are all natural, no preservatives, dyes, fillers, almost all allergen free and everything else you can't pronounce on package ingredient lists. The best part is Mike loves the stuff! Mike has a throat condition called esosinophillic esophagitis. I won't get into details about it; the name says enough. Basically, he is allergic to a lot of foods and when he eats something he is allergic too, his throat gets scratchy and swells. Anyway, he was diagnosed with the condition last year and the doctor that scoped his throat said it was the worst looking case he had ever seen. :( So, since then we try to cook meals that are free of the foods he can't eat, but that can be hard since many foods are processed near or on production lines that make peanut, soy, wheat products. Wildtree products have very stringent production processes that make their products virtually allergen free. Best of all, Julia also loves the products and it makes me feel good that she isn't ingesting all kinds of preservatives, additives and other stuff in her body. Also, she is a better meat eater now (something we have struggled with) when we use the Wildtree sauces and seasoning blends.

I am not an all organic, all natural person, but these products definitely make it easier to eat better and more natural especially when you are crunched for time.

I am very much looking forward to this new business adventure in the hope that I can share these wonderful products with others.

A Speck of Dust!

Again, my apologies for not posting lately. April and May were super busy months for the Mock family; things have definitely calmed down now.

I wish I could say that I have lots of pictures of Julia to post, especially the ones of her on her new swing set as mentioned in the previous post. Like any mom, I took a bunch of pictures...lots of pictures. But, something recently happened with this:

Our desktop computer recently went 'black'. What I mean by that is that when I was on the computer working on a few things, the computer slowed and then went completely black. Not a good sign. Mike, the technology savvy guy he is, tried everything he could to fix it himself. No luck. We took it to the Greek Squad and they said a speck of dust probably landed on the hard drive chip just as it was loading something and burned the chip (or something like that). A speck of dust! He said that the process to retrieve the information on the hard drive includes shipping the hard drive to another place where guys in hazmat suits (I kid you not) meticulously clean the hard drive in a sterile environment and try to retrieve the data! This process can cost somewhere around $2000! Ouch! It is a painful amount, but even more painful is that the hard drive contained ALL of our precious pictures and memories. All the pictures of Julia from birth to present as well as other photos and our wedding photos. Little did I know, Mike had backed all of Julia's photos and videos on an external hard drive. Our wedding photos we found saved on CDs; so we did lose a few other photos and lots and lots of documents, but nothing that is worth $2000. So, come Christmas time, I am going to need all your addresses because my Christmas card address list was on the aforementioned hard drive.

So, our recent pictures of Julia (Easter, swing set, etc....) were not backed up yet and unfortunately are lost forever. :( I will try to get some pictures of Julia to post soon!

Moral of the story: Please, please remember to back up your hard drive (and clean up the dust)!