Pampered Chef

ok, so I have to admit: I am loving doing Pampered Chef. I thought I could like it when I signed up but I didn't know I would like it this much. I get really excited when I have a show and get butterflies in my stomach and everything.

I just really like it. See, I'm not a social butterfly. I was never the girl with the most friends, but as I am getting older I find it easier just to talk to people and relate. Especially now that I have 2 kids I find it much easier to relate with other moms, and as this is the majority of the guests at my show it's working out well.

As I said at my show last night, there is very little I actually have control over in my life. But I have control over this. For the most part. Sometimes I don't have as many shows on my calendar as I'd like, but hopefully that will come as I get more shows under my belt. But I have control over when I want to do the shows, and I have control over the show itself.

If I think deeply about it, it probably feeds certain needs in me. I have always had a thing where I feel like people aren't listening to me. And now that I am a mom of a 3-year old, that is amplified 100-fold. And so to be the one who is center-stage, doing most of the talking, steering the show - I guess I feel like people are actually listening to me.

I also like to feel appreciated (who doesn't?). And when someone has a question and I can answer it for them, or give them information they didn't know before, and they are thankful for the answer - I quite enjoy that as well. And I'm sure that is the part of me that always thought I would become a teacher.

Anyway, I feel pretty lucky that I have that to do. It gets me out of the house, able to meet new people and make some new friends (which has happened), and on top of all of that I get paid to do it. Not a bad deal.