Linton here again. As I watch the Olympics and get ready for my first call to start my consulting project, I thought I would do a blog post while I could. James has been the main author of these to date.
It's official, I am doing a bit of consulting over here. Right now for Unicef Canada, just doing a few hours to help them think about their fundraising event framework. And I am waiting to hear from Children's Miracle Network to see if they require my assistance to further a relationship with Royal Children's Hospital here in Melbourne. The best part of becoming a consultant is joining Carter Hughes (my dad and stepmother's consulting firm). I am now a Vice President and will be billing through their company. I am very grateful to have their existing infrastructure to hang my hat onto.
I am hoping that any consulting I do will not take more than 6 hours/week. I am still continuing my fitness class, running at least 2x week and volunteering in Alex's classroom. I have just met some moms from the boys' school that run so I hope to join them occasionally. (Just in case anyone is wondering what I do when the kids are at school).
I am also really enjoying researching our future travels and day trips around Melbourne. We all loved our day trip last weekend seeing the penquins, kangaroos, koalas and ocean coastline.
The boys are great and thriving at school. Colin is very excited because we are going to see an AFL football game this weekend (Richmond vs. Hawthorn) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (HUGE stadium). We are going with Alex Davies' husband, Simon and their eldest daughter, Jessica. Colin is already playing footie with his new class friends in the school yard every chance he can get. Alex is happy in his own world with his Pokemon books and nintendo games, his art/colouring and is reading up a storm. He has read every book Colin has read and more. Both boys are on the last Bone book in the series - #8 (the Bone books are graphic novels - like comic books with chapters and thank goodness, we got the ones we didn't have from our local library here).
That is it for now, keep the emails and blog comments coming. It is comforting to know that our friends and family are interested in our life over here.
It's official, I am doing a bit of consulting over here. Right now for Unicef Canada, just doing a few hours to help them think about their fundraising event framework. And I am waiting to hear from Children's Miracle Network to see if they require my assistance to further a relationship with Royal Children's Hospital here in Melbourne. The best part of becoming a consultant is joining Carter Hughes (my dad and stepmother's consulting firm). I am now a Vice President and will be billing through their company. I am very grateful to have their existing infrastructure to hang my hat onto.
I am hoping that any consulting I do will not take more than 6 hours/week. I am still continuing my fitness class, running at least 2x week and volunteering in Alex's classroom. I have just met some moms from the boys' school that run so I hope to join them occasionally. (Just in case anyone is wondering what I do when the kids are at school).
I am also really enjoying researching our future travels and day trips around Melbourne. We all loved our day trip last weekend seeing the penquins, kangaroos, koalas and ocean coastline.
The boys are great and thriving at school. Colin is very excited because we are going to see an AFL football game this weekend (Richmond vs. Hawthorn) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (HUGE stadium). We are going with Alex Davies' husband, Simon and their eldest daughter, Jessica. Colin is already playing footie with his new class friends in the school yard every chance he can get. Alex is happy in his own world with his Pokemon books and nintendo games, his art/colouring and is reading up a storm. He has read every book Colin has read and more. Both boys are on the last Bone book in the series - #8 (the Bone books are graphic novels - like comic books with chapters and thank goodness, we got the ones we didn't have from our local library here).
That is it for now, keep the emails and blog comments coming. It is comforting to know that our friends and family are interested in our life over here.
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