Day # 8 For those of you (especially you , Peter Schroeder) who notice such things, you will see that I have two entries on the same day, despite calling them Day 7 and Day 8. Today, August 31, 2010 is Day #8. Yesterday, the real Day #7 I fell asleep before I wrote and woke up at 4:20 a.m. on Day #8 thinking, "Oh no! I did not blog last night!" It was a fear I had when I took this challenge of writing daily for 40 days. What if I forgot a day, what if my computer would not function, what if I could not find anyone to write about, etc. A lot of what ifs and now "it" has happened and here I am telling the world (at least I hope the world will one day read this) that by day seven I screwed up. I promise you, there will be 40 entries. I am finding individuals, animals, cities and more that are making a difference and I am loving the positive way I feel after I write about them.
Kristie Rimmele was part of Corporate America when she found herself going into labour with her second child after only 25 weeks of pregnancy. Not good. She was immediately put on bed rest to delay that little boy from being born too soon. During the 10 weeks that Kristie had in bed she made God a promise, "Let the baby be born, let him live and Kristie would help people."
As a child growing up in rural America, Kristie knew she would grow up and make something of her life. She knew deep down that she would do something big. That knowing got buried in Corporate America but resurfaced during a very trying time.
The baby was born. Healthy and weighing in at an impressive 5 pounds, 14 ounces Kristie had managed to get to 35 weeks before her baby boy demanded to be seen. Home the new mom went, Kristie had quit her job and was now going to be a mom at home. Never one to hang out and watch daytime TV, Kristie taught herself HTML (the language to build web sites) and created a web site based on her rich genealogy. A sister-in-law seeing the site asked Ms. Rimmele to build a site for her. This was back in 1998 when few people were web designers and word spread quickly. Kristie found herself working at home building web sites.Deciding this would be a great way to be a stay at home mom with an income, Kristie used her experience as a Director of Marketing to promote herself and her business. Eventually the Gurnee Sun did a seven page spread on Kristie Rimmele and moms began to call and write. "How did she do it? How did she set up a business at home? How could they do it?" Then Kristie said she heard God say, "You should write a book." A woman of her word, Kristie remembered her promise from when she was trying to save her baby and she began the long work of writing a book for moms who wanted to work at home."I LOVE MY LIFE: A Mom's Guide to Working from Home" (By Kristie Tamsevicius) was born.
Now there was a book for moms but was that enough? Kriste thought of how many moms still had questions and she started (along with Michelle Floyd) www.webmomz.com
The list of what this amazing woman has done and continues to do is inspiring and makes me wish there had been a Kristie Rimmele around when I was a stay at home mom wishing to stay that way as I also started a business.
Her Action: She made a decision to follow her heart and live on purpose. She had a heartfelt desire to make a difference from the time she was a child and she took steps to make the dream a reality.
Kristie may be reached at: http://www.kristiet.com/
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