Thursday, May 31, 2018

May Date Nights 2018

Date Night is always something I look forward to every week. It is something that makes our marriage thrive and it is a necessity for us! I love that I get to plan some and then Trevor gets to spoil me. It makes us both feel important throughout the month and it gives us a fun reminder to always be thinking about the other person.

Here we go!...

May 3rd: Trevor’s birthday party was that weekend so we went to Sam’s for date night to go shopping for food for the party. That probably wasn’t the most exciting date night, but the party was a blast and I consider that a GREAT date!


May 10th: TRIVIA NIGHT with some great friends! Our old neighbors, Randy and Cassie, met us at Rooftop in Broken Arrow and we got to have dinner and play trivia night. It was so much fun hanging out with them again and catching up! 

May 17th: We had dinner with Trevor’s new boss and his wife. It was great to finally meet his boss and get to have dinner out without kiddos! ;)

May 24th: We had to do something that wouldn’t take much time because we were leaving the next day to go to Kansas to visit my grandparents and neither of us had packed yet! Haha. We have both been slacking a little on praying, so we had a prayer night. We made a list of all the things/people that have been on our minds and we prayed about each and every one. 

May 31st: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN! We watched this great movie and ate popcorn! It must have been a great movie because we both stayed awake through the whole thing! Haha!

I'm looking forward to June and also to celebrating our 7th ANNIVERSARY!!!

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

JOIN MY TEAM!!! Usborne Books and More

JOIN MY TEAM!!!!
I NEVER saw myself working in sales...like, NEVER! Ha! I don't want to be pushy, I don't want to bother people, I'm a terrible sales person....yep, I've said it all and yet somehow here I am and I'm loving it! Have you said those words before? Then, this could be the perfect business for you! Because it's non of those things! It's sharing your passion of literacy and books with people. It's connecting with woman and helping them have quality family time!

I get to work from home and live out what I'm trying to help families do! CONNECT! I get to set my own schedule and be as busy or not busy as I want. PLUS, my kids are getting to do this right next to me. They are gaining entrepreneurial skills starting at a young age. Their library has grown tremendously and their love of reading has me EXCITED!

I have an INCREDIBLE TEAM! When you join my team with Usborne Books and More, you join a FAMILY. We encourage each other, support each other, cheer each other on and are always helping each other! You will not be in this alone!



There are few gifts as great as the gift of reading! Whether your child loves to read or hates to read, there is magic when you find something that connects with him or her. This is what I love about Usborne Books and More! They provide books that go beyond expectations to engage children to LOVE learning and often not know they are learning! You don't need to be an expert educator or have printed and laminated everything, like you see on Pinterest, to engage you children. You can start with a few good books. And you can begin with a consultant kit full of books at less than half the cost.




ZERO!! Zero really is truly the amount of commitment you must make to this business to get discounted books in the consultant kit. Not only can you get a box of discounted books, you will get 25% back on every purchase you make on books for yourself or gifts (or from what anyone buys from you) from that point on!

Easy as that, no commitments.

BUT IT CAN BE SO MUCH MORE!

So, what is the damage???

You actually have two options.
We have a Mini Kit for $75 which includes 10 BOOKS! **This is over a $100.00 value!!!**
Or we have one that is $125 which include 20 BOOKS! **This is over a $200.00 value!!!**



Your kit comes with 6 months of free website use so you can try it out and see if anyone wants to buy books from you while you earn a commission. If you'd like to continue with Usborne after that, the only thing you pay to keep it up is $8/mo for the website. Seriously, that's IT!! And when you receive 25% in commission (plus many promotions and incentives along the way in addition to this if you choose to meet the challenges), this is very, very little. But, there's more...Usborne will actually REIMBURSE the cost of your kit to you if you hit certain sales goals in your first 30 days. So, you could possibly sign up and make money without it costing you a dime. Keep reading for more info!



We need consultants of all kinds. Do you just want books for your kids? Do you want to try it out for a season and see how it fits with your family? Do you want to just earn enough to put your child in a special class? Do you want to be able to bless your child's preschool or another organization with free books? Do you want to go full-time working from home on your own flexible schedule and support your family? Do you want to earn trips, incentives, promotions, extra income, make friends and join an incredible team? I can't wait to work with each of you!




Usborne Books and More has been here in the U.S. as a direct-selling company for over 40 years. Usborne has been a publishing company in the U.K. for much longer. Here in the U.S. we also work with Kane Miller, a publishing company here (you can see a listing of Kane Miller books on our shopping website). We are a tried-and-true company who has lasted, has experience in supporting our consultants, is on the cutting edge with growth and expansion, and has been expanding greatly over the past five years. While we are growing, we are also very family-focused and have a team feel. You will not be overlooked joining our team. You will be cared for, your questions will be important and you will be a part of our team!


If you need to take a break, we will not pressure you. If you want to push through the roof and earn great goals, we will support you and cheer you on. If you want to return after a big break, we will welcome you with open arms. This company and especially our specific team has blown me away with the supportive attitude, helpful resources, encouraging challenges and goals, amazing incentives and I'm thankful to be a part of it! It has changed me for the better.





Here are just a few reasons I love Usborne for me:

  • I get to pass along free books to my hostesses who invite their friends to a party.
  • With every party I host, children around the globe are getting incredible books into their homes and their love of reading is growing!
  • I get to give 50% back of my sales in free books to organizations if I host a book fair with them.
  • I have been able to LOAD my home library to overflowing with incredible high-quality books for my children.
  • My children LOVE reading and we rarely watch TV.
  • I get to work from home on my own time with my two littles right beside me.
  • I've made incredible friends already.
  • This has opened doors and built confidence in me that I didn't know I needed. 
  • This is not just a job, it's a joy!
  • I get to earn incentives, free books, trips, CASH and more.
  • I've had the pleasure of sending thousands of dollars in books to a non-profit to benefit children in need. 
  • I've had the opportunity to work with a woman in the Philippines and send hundreds of dollars to a trauma-sensitive school for orphans and rescued kids! WOW! This is so much bigger than me!

What will it hurt to try it out? Join my team and host a launch party. I'll help you do it! Whatever you sell, you'll get 25% back in commission. But, there's more...like I said...Usborne will actually REIMBURSE the cost of your kit to you if you hit certain sales goals in your first 30 days. So, you could possibly sign up and make money without it costing you a dime. PLUS, your consultant kit full of books would be FREE, you would earn FREE books in addition to your kit refund and you would be able to redeem HOSTESS REWARDS from your party (which would be DOUBLE FREE rewards for all parties during a new consultant's first 90 days). Have you done the math yet on how many free books and commission you would get? Let's say you sell $2000 in 30 days (very very doable!), you would not only get your kit reimbursed, you'd get all those books from your launch party rewards, you'd have set up your other hostesses with a bunch of free books and you would have earned at least 25% of that $2000 in sales, so a paycheck of $500. You heard me right! Plus, no website fees and total support from me, your team leader and the rest of the team. (I didn't even mention other goodies from reaching sales challenges like these and a 4% monthly bonus every time you sell over $1000 in a month. And there are smaller goals if $2000 doesn't happen for you as well, so why not try?).

How would this opportunity help your family?
How could it change your family for the better??
If you don't try, you'll never know. 


If you'd like to know more, contact me at jilliancmorris@gmail.com or on Facebook. I'd love to chat with you!





Monday, May 28, 2018

Fun on the FARM!



One of my favorites from the weekend! ;)


Wow, this weekend was a blast! We had so much fun in Kansas visiting my grandparents and entertaining the boys with tractors, horses, jungle gyms, 4 wheelers, pools and family! 

We left Friday afternoon and arrived around dinner time. We mainly hung out inside and chatted with family before putting the boys to bed that night. 





Saturday we explored the farm!
We met the horses and even got to help with feeding them, we got to sit on a tractor, we went into town and got to see a museum that my grandma contributed to, we hung out at the splash pad and played on the local playground, we had dinner with family and wrapped up the day with 4-wheeler rides. 





















Sunday was filled with family!
We went to church that morning then came back to the farm for lunch and nap times. When Brooks got up from his nap we hung out in the baby pools with my cousins baby, then lots of family came over for a picnic for my cousin’s birthday. Thank you to all my family members who helped entertain my crazy kiddos! A big shoutout to my Aunt Lorri who was there all weekend loving on my kiddos and helping them try new things! 















Monday was filled with making memories that made us never want to leave!

Swinging


Swinging with GiGi


4-wheeler rides




Pool time!




A ride in the BIG tractor with Brooks’s new favorite person, Ruthanne! 






And a ride on Cricket! Again, thank you Ruthanne for spoiling my kiddo!

We had so much fun visiting the farm and getting spoiled by GiGi and Great Grandpa! I have SO many memories on the farm and I’m so thankful that my kids will too!!

Brooks is currently telling me all about the tractors he saw on the farm...







Friday, May 18, 2018

The Start of Something New for Me!

Some of you know that Trevor recently took a job with a company called EDC. Some of you might be thinking, wait, I thought he started his own company, or wait, is this another new company? Well, the answer is YES and YES! Haha! That whole story is probably for another day! So, I'll start here. 

Trevor now works for a company called EDC (Educational Development Corporation). They are the distributing company for Usborne Books and More. To be honest, I really had never heard much about Usborne Books and More. I associated them with Scholastic, but that's about the extent of my knowledge. For those of you that don't know, they have books for children of all ages. They have fiction and non-fiction and many are award-winning titles. Well, after Trevor started working there he brought home a couple of their books for Brooks. Brooks fell in LOVE with them! I am not kidding when I say that! He already loved books, but once we started reading those, they became the ones he ASKS US to read, even now. 


So, initially I just kept asking Trevor to get us some new titles because we would read the same one 7 times every day! Haha! I then discovered that they have independent consultants that sell them. Now, I am not the direct salesperson type so, to be honest, I NEVER considered this an option for me. Trevor would hint around it, but I would blow him off and tell him I AM NOT A SALESPERSON! Then, we went to Florida....



Brooks and I read this book together all the time. It's called My First Word Book. It's an Usborne book that Trevor brought home right after he started working for EDC.
You can look into it here
It has tons of pictures with captions of what each item is. Brooks points out all the pictures he knows, names them and then each day I would add one or two more that he didn't know yet and we would practice them together. One of the picture/words is "Parachute." He has ONLY seen a parachute in this one book and we only talked about that picture a hand full of times. To be honest, I didn't think he would see one in the near future, so I didn't focus on that one a whole lot. Well, fast forward to us being in Florida on the beach. We are sitting in the sand having fun family time and then a boat drives by in the distance with a parasailor. Brooks looks up and starts yelling "parachute, parachute, parachute". Seriously, the coolest thing ever! I mean, I am a teacher, I know kids learn so much from books, but this was so cool. One picture in one book and Brooks was able to identify it in person! SOOOO COOL!

Well, that was when I decided that I wanted to look into being a part of Usborne Books and More. That was a SCARY thought (still is!) because I am no salesperson. But, I don't have to be! I am just a mom, passionate about books, passionate about literacy, wanting to be a part of something bigger than myself. When I was speaking with my Team Leader on the phone, she shared with me that her team (which I'm now a part of!!!) put together $33,000 worth of free books for children taken emergently into foster care! Truly, that is the story that made the decision for me. That is a story that I want to be a part of! It is so important for children to have books at their fingertips and to end the literacy crisis. I saw it at my school every day when I was a teacher. 6th graders would be on a kindergarten or 1st grade reading level. It really affects EVERY aspect of learning when a child is behind in reading. Try reading a math book (which is already like a foreign language for many) on a reading level that is 5 times above yours!

ALL OF THAT TO SAY...I am now a crazy book lady! AKA an independent consultant for Usborne Books and More!

It's my goal to share these amazing books with everyone I can and find the perfect ones for YOUR family! 

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME FREE BOOKS for those kiddos in your life???? Get in touch with me!!! 










Join my VIP Group on Facebook: here is the link.
Seriously, if you'd like some FREE BOOKS, get in touch with me!!! 

I'm so excited for this fun adventure!