The Beautiful Letdown

A breastfeeding blog that dabbles in tandem, extended nursing, gentle parenting and much more

I’m officially a “Educational Consultant.”

November18

Now what? :-)

I wrote a while ago about how I was going to sign up to become a Dis­cov­ery Toys con­sul­tant. Well, I did it. I got my con­sul­tant num­ber and everything!

I’m a lit­tle unsure where to go next though. I got an e-mail last week telling me wel­come on board. So, I guess my next step is to either buy some toys or tell line up some par­ties? They don’t give you a whole lot of infor­ma­tion or guid­ance right away. I think I’m sup­posed to have a bunch of toys com­ing in the mail soon, so maybe I’ll feel more direc­tion once those arrive.

An admission

November4

First of all, I’m won­der­ing what admis­sion my hus­band is think­ing I’m going to make. Haha. Too bad that I can’t keep him in sus­pense while mak­ing the admis­sion to every­one else.

Unfor­tu­nately, it’s noth­ing too steamy. I decided that I am going to sign up to become a Dis­cov­ery Toys con­sul­tant. I went to a party in Feb­ru­ary, and I loved their toys. They were high qual­ity and good for kids, and they have a vari­ety that you don’t see at Tar­get or Toys R Us much of the time. We also have 7 nieces and nephews that we buy birth­day and/or Christ­mas presents for each year. Of those seven, 6 are 6 and younger. That’s not the admission.

Here it comes! Brace yourselves!

I told the woman who I signed up under that I wanted to be a con­sul­tant mostly to buy toys for my nieces and nephews and my two boys. The truth is that I wouldn’t mind mak­ing some money doing this, too. Whew. Why was that so hard? I sup­pose it’s because it means that I have to admit that we’re not liv­ing in the lap of lux­ury oth­er­wise. I mean, we’re doing fine, but a lit­tle extra income would be nice from time to time. There I got it out.