When I was still a very young student, sometime in the later elementary years, my classmates noticed that I was able to submit my reports or essays way ahead of everybody. They also noticed that I get very good grades with my essays. Thus began my love of writing.
Being an avid book-reader, I also love to see my own words put to paper. I always had a journal or a diary, as some may call it, all these years. Even as a very busy mother, I still found the time to sit down and write my thoughts. It lessened just a bit when I started blogging because I was able to express myself more in my blogs. I still kept my prayer journal, though, because those held most of my private prayers and thoughts about my life and family.
One of the funny things that resulted from all the writing I do is that I always get asked to write a paper for somebody. I remember in Grade 6, my classmates would ask me to write their essays for them. I never did, though. I would always tell them to write it themselves and I'll just help in the grammar after they wrote it. I did this all through high school and then college. I didn't want to be writing their papers for them, I just helped in the correction of grammars and sentence construction. I don't know now if what I do can be called editing because I know that professional editors use a guide to edit. Correcting grammars and the writing style itself became something like a sideline for me, but without any pay.
When my husband and I were just dating, he came to me one day asking for help with their group's paper. He gave me a yellow pad filled with a classmate's writing. When I started checking it, I found I almost had to write the whole thing over. Nothing in it made sense! It was as if the writer was just wanting to get the words out there but had no skills in writing.
I just wish I had known then what I do know now - people actually charged a fee for writing or editing their papers. This is such a shocker to me because I had been doing the service for free! With the advent of internet, now any student can just go online and look for a paper-writing services. As long as the student has the money to pay, she can engage someone to write her paper.
One site I found is www.advancedwriters.com/write-my-paper/write-my-term-paper.html . This site guarantees that buyers will get a professionally- written, original term paper. If a student should decide to buy now , a high-school level term paper can be had for $13.00/ page. $13.00?!? I could have gotten rich in high school if I wrote my classmates' term papers and charged for it.
Well, that time has passed now. As a homeschool mom, I still hold true to my integrity. I still don't write my children's assignments for them. They will have to learn it themselves. Maybe someday, they may want to earn from their own writing skills in a legitimate manner as I do now.
I have not been posting as much as before. Nor have I been writing my usual reviews. But I'd like to tell you all what I've been up to for the last two months.
Well, I've been working, from home, that is. After Zac died last June, our family incurred a huge debt. Zac had been delivered via caesarian section and I had to have a complete hysterectomy. Add to that Zac's one month stay in the NICU. That alone was already quite a lot of money spent.
Then Zac was confined in the Pediatric ICU for five days before he finally succumbed to death, and that's another big expense.
That time, the Lord provided us so much already through the financial help of family and friends. A lot gave generously, but we still had a huge bill to pay which resulted into debt.
So after that, I decided to look for an online job. Not long after Zac died, an online friend posted on Facebook that she was looking for a Social Media Strategist and that this is a home-based position. Even though I was not at all experienced in Social Media, I went ahead and wrote to her. We met in real life for the interview, then I had an online interview with our American boss and after a week or so, someone from the office called me with a job offer!
I've been working full time from home for the last two months, getting to know my job better, acclimating myself to the WAHM life, homeschooling my kids, and managing the home. The blogging is the first to go, at this point. It was a choice between blogging and homeschooling, so I chose to homeschool first.
In the meanwhile, ideas for blog posts are swimming around in my head and these need to be released. I'd like to expand my blog to write more about the lessons I've been learning as a wife and mother and even as a grieving mother.
Well, these will come soon. A blog redesign is also in the plan and I am excited to unveil these. Hopefully, I can launch my new and exciting blog by the New Year 2013! I hope that all my current followers will still follow my new blog and that I gain more followers.
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