I think we had a read-a-thon

Graham and Parker (age4) and their friend Garland (age3 with Autism) reading some awesome book titles from my Usborne book store! We ended up reading books for half of the day!

Featured in this post are:

That's not my bear

That's not my dolly

That's not my elephant

       Ted and Friends (read along to cd)

Max and Millie start school

Bedtime

Some of these books were Usborne titles that we have owned for quite some time. Others were Usborne titles that arrived with my new consultants kit.  You can read more about that in my post located here, entitled books, books, books. I am really happy with how things are going so far. I already have several recruits and a few sales! I am shocked at how well it is going for me. I did not expect to do well at all. I did badly with Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, and Tupperware.

I rarely made sales and never had any recruits with those three companies. So far Usborne is seriously amazing and very surprising. It makes sense in a way though, I guess when it boils down to it... Your kids need good books for many reasons. However no one actually needs that tube of lipstick, or that blush, or that new piece of stoneware, or that awesome pasta strainer, or that cool set of bowls with matching lids. I don;t know why I ever tried to be a Pampered Chef consultant, or a Tupperware consultant, or a Mary Kay consultant. 

All I did is waste money, time, energy, and fail miserably at all three, despite my efforts.

I am seriously not really even trying and already Usborne books has given me 10x the sucess I ever even fathomed from it. I am glad I went for it. Seriously you can not beat $10 to sign up as a new consultant. It's a win/win situation and you get almost $300 in books and materials to get started, and it is mostly... seriously mostly all books in the box. Not stupid books, but books that are awesome! How flippin' cool is that!?!

Graham is reading "That's not my bear" and feeling the texture patch on the bear's paw

Garland and her Mom reading "Bedtime" together, it is a good book for speech therapy

Parker's favorite is "That's not my Bear",  we have owned this book for over a year now.

Graham is reading along to the audio CD playing for "Ted and Friends"

Garland is very interested in this Audio Cd for the book "Ted and Friends"

Garland is reading "That's not my Dolly" and feeling the tactile sensory areas of each page!

feeling the hair bow in "That's not my Dolly"

Wish List Giveaway!!

I have another way for you all to potentially win free books from me. I will enter anyone with a Wish List on my book website automatically into a monthly drawing. All you do is go to my book store website, click on register, then click on shop after you register, after that you browse for books that you like for your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, etc, and when you find a book you like, click on "add to wish list". This will be an ongoing thing. You can change or add to your Wish List at any time and always be entered into the monthly drawing to win some books from your wish list!! Click here to go to my book store to get your Wish List started
http://www.myubam.com/s3866

Books Books Books!!!

I now officially have my own online book store!!!  Back when Graham and Parker were born, we were given a stack of used baby, toddler, preschooler books. When they were released from the NICU, I got the books out so I could start reading to them. By the time Graham and Parker were 1, they had a few favorite books. One was a book called Rusty's Bone.

They absolutely can not get enough of the "that's not my" series and the Farmyard tales series! They get them out to read on their own and ask them to be read to them the most.

So one day I turn the book over to see who it was written by and such. I found a little sticker that said Usborne books and a number to call.  I called the number and there was a voicemail. I left a message for the Usborne consultant to call me back, I wanted to buy more of these books. She never returned my call. I ended up calling the Usborne customer service and they had no info on that consultant. I gave up and bought a few from amazon. I pondered for several years whether or not I might want to become an Usborne consultant. I decided to go for it last week!!

In the past I have been a Mary Kay consultant, and I know there was at least 2-3 other popular companies that I tried out being a consultant with. None of that worked out.

I have read these books to my kids, I know these books. I know how great they are. So I decided to go ahead and try out being a consultant with a company that sells something I know a lot about and have tried out! I am pretty happy with my decision. I can work at my own pace and mostly via the internet. I have very little spare time for home parties. In fact, unless someone asks me to, I won;t be holding any home parties.

My "kit" arrived today and it contains all of the things I need to sell the books and best of all, it contains a HUGE STACK OF AMAZING BOOKS!!!

My kids have been all over the books like little vultures!!  Haley(16) read one already, Mackenna(12) has been checking out all of the books with activities and doing the activities, Cameron(13) has read half of a book, Graham and Parker(4) have looked through 8 of them and had me read 5 to them!!!  I am really happy with the books and best of all they are ours to keep!!! They are my displays too though so they will be kept in a box that I have control over.

Best of all, I paid a total of TEN dollars to get this huge stack of books, all the stuff I need to be a consultant.... and that's it!!! Now I just enjoy the books with my kids and sell books to others for them to enjoy with their kids... and for their kids to enjoy on their own!!!!

Cool deal!

My store link.....   http://www.myubam.com/s3866

Here are the books!!

THESE ones are books that we already owned. (they did not come with the kit)