Project Central

I am working on several projects right now, some I have blogged about and some I haven't. Each of these projects are very meaningful for me despite their diversity. Let me show you what I mean.

1. Canadian Birth Professional series: I am writing a four book series on the business aspect of being an independent birth professional; Business Fundamentals, Birth Plan Basics, Marketing and Record Keeping. The second and third are finished, the first is almost done and I have a fair amount done on the fourth. They have taken longer than I promised my editor because I keep adding to them!

2. Landscape Design for the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Rosenthal: I am working on a three phase plan for their landscape development. I spent a couple of hours this week pouring over site plans and addition blueprints (there has been four additions to the church over the years and each has their own measurements not contained on subsequent plans, so I had to dig through them all! I have preliminary drawings of everything, I just need to formalize it onto scale drawings and put some costs in (yikes, this will be the big job) to bring to the committee in August.

3. ICAN's Accreditation Program: Having finished all the groundwork, and launched the program in May, we (as in myself as Education Director and the Education Committee) are now completing the modules not yet written. We are also using the feedback from those currently working through the program to refine it.

4. Immanuel's Healthy Family Ministry: Coordinating a multi-faceted program to support perinatal and mature parents; Christian Prenatal Classes, Birth Doula Support, Postpartum Doula Support, New Moms Group, Helping Hands and Parenting Programs. Our launch date is "Labour Day" on September 5th with a Healthy Family Fair which will promote all the programs, including our Healing Ministry and offer sign up for Sunday School, Alpha and other fall programs.

5. Being the main person on ICAN International's board of directors with affiliation knowledge and a vested interest in having these agreements in place as a Canadian, I will be working on ICAN affiliate agreements for Canada, Ireland and Singapore this fall.

6. Becoming a Lactation Educator Trainer. This is something I have been wanting to do for years and have just not put as a priority. It is now and I am working through the preliminary work towards becoming approved.

Busy you say? Insane maybe? Well I cannot tell you how much each of these projects excites me and gets me up in the morning ready to build each program in a different way. I find that if I don't have at least two projects on the go at once I am bored and if they are diverse I can switch around and not bog down with one. I can go back to one that I felt frustrated with and have a new perspective, having worked on something else for a while!