Lynn the Giant Squid

Homeschooling is one of my hardest, but most rewarding jobs. I love spending time with my children. I love being the one to see my children's "ah-ha, I get it!" moments. I also love being the one to come up with their lessons. A good majority of my lenses are on education. When I plan out homeschool studies, Squidoo is an awesome place to put them. This is also a way I can give back to the homeschool community by freely sharing my lessons with others.

I truly doubt I would be a Giant Squid right now, if I had not first been invited to be a Rocket Mom. When I became a Rocket Mom I had about 35 lens and wasn't moving to fast at creating them. Near the end of the first session of Rocket Moms, I hit my 50th lens. I also had much more confidence in my lenses. Thank you Bonnie!!!

Over the last 8 months, I have went from being a SAHM to a SAH/ WAHM (stay at home/ work at home mom). It has been a huge change and one that my family is still very unsure of! But with the economy the way it is, I really had to do something. I didn't like the idea of going off to work and with my health problems and the fact that I homeschool made it almost impossible. So working from home really was the only option and I really do enjoy it. It has been a HUGE adjustment, one of which we are still trying to find a good balance for. This summer I have been spending a lot of my time trying to get ahead, so I can back off some once school starts. I've also been reading everything I can get my hands on about Affiliate Marketing and writing online.

This month (July 2009) I have been very busy working on a project to help find a missing little girl, named Lindsey Baum. This has been very emotionally draining at times. I got involved after there was an appeal for prayer from a woman that knew her on the eHow forum. I knew of this woman, but didn't know her too well. I feel I know her a lot better now. This woman, momwhowrites, is the mother of Lindsey's best friend and was one of the last people to see Lindsey. Lindsey left momwhowrites' home before dark to walk the 4 block home in her very small town and never made it home. Many of us on eHow have gotten involved in a full scale attempt to get the word out about Lindsey. A big part of my contribution is a Squidoo lens called, Please Help Find Missing Little Girl. This lens has been on the Top 100 list 26 days out of it's month existence and reached the lens rank of #19. As of right now it is the lens I'm the proudest of!!! It is also the lens I'm not making one cent on. lol!!! Yep, it is going to charity, The Polly Klass Foundation and hopefully because it, not only Lindsey will be found, but other missing children.

(This is not a new project anymore, but unfortunately, Lindsey has still not been found so I keep this here as a reminder to keep looking.)