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For all of you who are here because of my BIG NEWS Christmas card teaser, the big news is not another Fleetwood baby!\u00a0 Sorry to disappoint…maybe in 2010!<\/p>\n

No, the big news has to do with a dream of mine.\u00a0 As a child, we’re taught to dream big, and so we do.\u00a0 We don’t know any better.\u00a0 The world is a wide open field and we can choose any direction we please.\u00a0 I see that beautiful picture play out in my girls’ life.\u00a0 Audrey wants to be a dress designing, artist, veterinarian.\u00a0 I tell her to go for it.\u00a0 Anna doesn’t have such lofty dreams, yet.\u00a0 She would be very content performing on any stage she comes across.\u00a0 I’m expecting to see her name in lights.<\/p>\n

As for my dreams, I’ve had many.\u00a0 Over the years, I’ve seen God work in my life through the paths I’ve chosen and the ones that have been chosen for me.\u00a0 Woven through those paths has always been the desire to create something of my own.\u00a0 Something with vision and purpose.\u00a0 Something where I can share my passions with others and help them in the process. \u00a0\u00a0 Something that serves God, as well as supporting and involving my family.\u00a0 Something that uses my gifts and offers the flexibility I need to love and nurture my children and husband.\u00a0\u00a0 Just those things and more, that’s all!\u00a0 Over the years, I’ve had many ideas and even had business plans for a few, but life took over and they just did not pan out.\u00a0 This time, God has been hard at work in a way that is hard to deny.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, I was blessed to meet a woman named Erin.\u00a0 We became friendly acquaintances.\u00a0 I started watching her children one day a week, and we became friends.\u00a0 We realized how much we have in common: from parenting styles, educational goals, creative living and much more. Erin is a talented interior stylist among other things, and she is a dreamer.\u00a0 She sees opportunity and potential where others do not.\u00a0 That wide open field still exists for her.<\/p>\n

One day, not much more than a month ago, she posed a question to me that went something like this.\u00a0 What if there was a place where women, men, and families could go to learn about all this stuff we always talk about…expanding our creativity, parenting issues, health, wellness, our spiritual walk.\u00a0 You, know, I know this building in Augusta that would be perfect.\u00a0 It’s newly remodeled, but hasn’t been used for anything in years.\u00a0 The view is amazing.\u00a0 There could be workshops and time for meditation.\u00a0 People could enjoy the trails and we could provide a wonderful lunch and time for exploring the antique shops. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>I stopped and stared.\u00a0 I blinked.\u00a0 My mind raced.\u00a0 I was in.<\/p>\n

Thus, Spark Workshops was born and God continued working.\u00a0 The concept was so similar to a plan I had concocted about 10 years ago, that I already had the bones of a business plan.\u00a0 Erin was able to get a story about Spark included in an article in the St. Louis Kids Magazine for the January\/February issue.\u00a0 We scrambled to created a logo, finalize a business plan, create a web site, start the process of forming an official partnership and planning our first workshop.\u00a0 The article in St. Louis Kids magazine will hit thousands of area households at the first of the year, and we hope to fill our first workshop.\u00a0 Our brains are swimming with the possibilities for workshop themes.\u00a0 Everything from journaling, creative parenting, creative interior home design, and others.\u00a0 All with the foundation of growing closer to Christ, to others, and drawing upon our God-given gifts.\u00a0 It’s so exciting!<\/p>\n

If you knew how wonderfully this endeavor fits with both of our gifts, you would be amazed.\u00a0 Because we’ve been able to do everything using our own skills, experience, talents and contacts, we really haven’t even had any upfront costs.\u00a0 It’s a wonderful vision and we’re so very excited and grateful.\u00a0 Without further adieu, I introduce you to:<\/p>\n

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Please visit our website at www.sparkworkshops.com and consider joining us for our first workshop!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Be sure to check out the article in the January\/February issue of St. Louis Kids magazine!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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