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Work at Home Story

Balanced Grandma
by Kathryn Beach

I hesitate to get started writing my story; I've been told I can be
too wordy ;-) But I don't believe that anything happens by mistake,
there are no accidents, only lessons to be learned, strength and
direction to be gained, so how do you decide what to leave out?

I'm almost 56 years old, not exactly a work at home mom, but I've
worked at home all my life and am a grandmother of 4, mother of 2.

With my story, I want to encourage all women, all work at home
mothers, to look at their lives with "different eyes", to learn to
find purpose and meaning in who they are and what they do. Perhaps
by choosing a few events to tell out of my own life, they can learn
to consciously weave their lives into their own unique fabric.

Weaving is an especially good metaphor for me, my mother taught me
to knit when I was 11 years old, and about 37 years later a friend
and I went online with our knitting business. We knit, a friend
built our website. My partner went offline and knit for bazaars and
consignment stores, but I stayed online for about 5 years, until I
moved from the States here to Nova Scotia, Canada. It took me
almost 1 1/2 years to get my papers in order, to be a permanent
resident. Until then, I was unable to work (no Social Insurance
Number), so I started looking around online for ways to make money.
I found out very quickly that it would take a while to learn and
actually start making money, so that fit in with my legal
limitations quite well. My husband started an SFI business,
and I used their resources alongside him to learn the online
affiliate marketing business.

My husband joined an SFI team that hosted personal websites for its
members, so I jumped in with a html tutor program and learned how to
make website changes for him. He wrote articles, I posted them to
article directories around the 'net. I helped him get reciprocal
links to his website. Together we built a website that came up in
the top ten on Google, Yahoo and MSN for his keywords,
work at home in Canada, home business opportunity in Canada, etc.

Once I was "legal" this past summer, I started my own businesses and
built my own websites from scratch, using Notepad and basic html.
Nothing fancy, but I've learned what it takes to get targeted search
engine traffic. I decided not to go back into the custom handknits
business; my handknits are truly handknit, not cranked out on a
knitting machine, so there's not much money in it. I dug deep to
find other passions.

My whole adult life, up until now, has been spent living in rural
areas, close to the earth. Living off the grid with solar and wind
power, growing a large garden, knitting with natural fibers,
homeschooling children. A woman friend who was a wise mentor
unexpectedly passed away from cancer, after becoming
increasingly ill and finally bedridden because of multiple chemical
sensitivities. I think about her every day, miss her, and decided
to try to educate people about safer alternatives to the household
cleaners, personal products, bath products, first aid products, and
cosmetics we use every day. I've been using such products for
decades, as my gray water went out into my orchard, but I realize
that many many people are not aware of the hazards of
toxic chemicals, or the availability of effective alternatives.

I've developed a website devoted to helping people get started in
affiliate marketing, and have a subdomain there all about the
virtues of tea tree oil. I've been using tea tree oil for about 10
years, but just recently became affiliated with a tea tree oil-based
product line. Tea tree oil's antiseptic, antibiotic and antifungal
properties make it a wonderful alternative, and I have to say, I'm
in love!

My other passion is my family. I'm in Canada, they're in the States
except for my husband, some on the west coast, some on the east, and
two of my grandchildren have never met their grandma. Geez.
Wherever I live in Canada,I will always be an airline trip away from
some of my family. So my other business includes Travel Rewards,
where with a small monthly activation fee a person can accumulate
monthly discount rewards on airline tickets, hotels,cruises, dining,
luggage, DVD movies, software, and more. So I've turned my
challenges and hardships into viable home businesses.

My goals are to move from Nova Scotia to B.C. to be close to my
sons. I want to be able to support my husband and I when he retires
from construction. I want to have my own home again and the means
to not only live comfortably, but to be able to help others. Along
the way, it would give me great pleasure and satisfaction to assist
others in making their dreams come true as well. My
motto is, "I'm as dedicated to your success as you are!"

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Grandma Kathryn's Homepage:
http://www.7affiliatecentral.com
<a
href="http://www.7affiliatecentral.com">Affiliate
Marketing Tips</a>
Tea Tree Oil business:
http://ads.profitrally.com/c_c2mqu/amomslove
<a
href="http://ads.profitrally.com/c_c2mqu/amomslove">Balanced Mom</a>
Tea Tree Oil information site:
http://teatreeoil.7affiliatecentral.com
<a
href="http://teatreeoil.7affiliatecentral.com">Learn About the Tea
Tree Oil
Phenomenon!</a>
VIP Travel Rewards:
http://www.7affiliatecentral.com/travelrewards.htm
<a
href="http://www.7affiliatecentral.com/travelrewards.htm">VIP Travel
Rewards</a>
Grandma Kathryn's blog:
http://kathrynbeach.blogspot.com
<a href="http://kathrynbeach.blogspot.com">"In
The Shade
Of The Tea Tree"</a>



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