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Real Name: Patricia Worth Cell: (916)475-3149 Gender: female Date of Birth: December 17, 1970 Member Since: April 04, 2008 Last Signed In: December 10, 2008 Blog Views: 246 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
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Well we did it. We met last night in Elk Grove all 9 of us were there and it was fantastic. Thank you all for coming and some of you drove way far to meet. I was so excited when I left last night I had a hard time going to sleep. We started the evening around 7pm at Cassidy's 9625 E Stockton Blvd Elk Grove. I was so happy to meet moms that had been in the world of direct sales for years and had a wealth of information to share with us, "newbies" who had just started their businesses, other moms who are going thru the same issues as me. So what was the meat and potatoes of the evening? here is what I got from last night. Ladies feel free to add your comments: 1) were need a name for our group 1) Kathy Jesmont will be working with us as she is the creative mind behind Events Planner - Specializing in Craft and Vendor Fairs. She can keep us posted on all her wonderful upcoming events. you can reach her at 916-548-4929 or www.itsjustyourstyle.com 2) Louise Umeki is the Northwest Chapter Coordinator for the DSWA The Alliance for Direct Selling Women, Loiuse is a phenomenal woman, she is a walking volt of information (actually i think i scared her a bit when i told her i am her new best friend :o) Don't worry Louise I will keep my harassment to a minimum) www.dswa.org The wonderful moms that were there include: Hilda Ramirez - Gold Canyon www.mygc.com/hildaramirez Thank you all again for coming. Next meeting will be on Monday November 3rd in Natomas at 6:30 PM. Please email me at winelady12790@yahoo.com to get an invite. Ladies PLEASE add any additional information that i have missed or please correct me if I misstated any information. Cheers Patricia Morning! Yelcho, Colchagua Valley Carmenere Reserva, Chile - different and interesting, very good Domaine Galetis, Sauvignon Blanc de la Clauso, vin de pays d'Oc, France - loved this one. very smooth, soft and velvety Mountbridge, South Eastern Australia Cabernet Merlot - I personally did not drink the reds but i was told that it was a very nice blend Mosaic Vineyards & Winery, Sonoma County Chardonnay, California - excellent, a bit of oak but not overwhelming. OK ladies, This weekend I am having a wine tasting with a few friends that are dying to find out what the Traveling Vineyard is all about. Honestly so am I. I just became a consultant about 3 weeks ago and I am excited about it. The wines that the traveling vineyard caries are boutique wines. Without turning this into a sales pitch... no need... you either drink wine or you don't simple. I decided to share with everyone the wines I purchase for the parties and what my honest opinion is of them and even how my guests felt about the wines. With that said. here is the list of wines I purchase for this weekend: Pierre-Luc Bouchaud, Muscadet Sevre et Maine Sur Lie, Loire Valley, France Yelcho, Colchagua Valley Carmenere Reserva, Chile Domaine Galetis, Sauvignon Blanc de la Clauso, vin de pays d'Oc, France Mountbridge, South Eastern Australia Cabernet Merlot Mosaic Vineyards & Winery, Sonoma County Chardonnay, California I personally am a white wine drinker but I will give the red a try and see how they do. The party is on Saturday so I will update either Sunday or Monday Morning. Cheers... Patricia Worth
OK so i do not consider myself a battered ex wife or anything like that but i was very afraid of my ex for many years. You would think that now after winning custody and him in jail my fear would diminish. Nope... My ex wrote to my children and since I get the mail I read it first. I did it because I need to know what he is telling my children and for me to be ready for the questions and the comments. First let me explain that the concept of joint mailboxes as we have them here are not so popular on the east coast. So he thinks the kids get the mail and I am not reading them. Ha... I did and will do so until they turn 18. Mother bear speaking here. Hear me rooooar. Ok so the last two letter have been how I have done this and that ...blah blah... I was upset by all of this cause as always I do not believe the children need to be in the middle and I do not speak of ill of him or of what has been happening. It took me about a week to get the courage to write the letter that I knew I needed to write him. Mother bear right? Protect the children and fight back. As I started to write panic set in. My hands started to tremble and a panic attack was coming on. I could feel it. Calm down Patty... he is 3K miles away and the worst that can happen is NOTHING. I was polite, courteous and to the point. Don't write bad things about me to the children, don't upset the children, write happy thoughts (not sure how he can do that from jail... his problem) and updated him the current situation on the children, signed it, sealed it and mailed right there on the spot before I changed my mind. wow... unreal how you can be abused without the physical scars. But I am Mother Bear now and I will ROAR!!!! During my custody settlement, I was ordered to bring the children out to California along with the step mom. I was to pay for all expenses. At first you might think WHAT? Are you kidding? Pay for flight for three people, car rental for her out here, and hotel. yea it took me a few years before I could afford to do that. But the financial was not nearly as hard as the emotional. I did not like this woman. She was my ex husbands new wife, my children called her mom, we had a past of a joint relationship with my ex for well over a year. Arghhh. How could I face her? How could I share her with my children for the two weeks I barely got with them a year? Now looking back on it I can not tell you what gave me the strength and the foresight to smile, but I did. For two weeks, no matter what was said, what we did, how much displeasure I felt inside, I smiled. That smile helped me win custody of my children. See what was happening was that my idea of the perfect marriage that I thought they had was not really there. At the same time my ex had said some nasty, terrible things about me to the new wife, I was evil, mean, a cheater, a bad mom. So when the new wife came out here to visit and I just smiled and was my normal self she saw a different side of the evil mother. And so the dam was beginning to crack under the pressure. She was so impressed that I treated her with kindness and respect, that I shared my life, my home and my children that when she returned home she started to question his accusations. Now years later, we speak once a week at least, we share stories and have inspired each other in ways that I would have never believed. We have been the best therapy to each other, openly speaking of the past and rehashing it. My ex is in jail currently and I will speak of this in other blogs. I have moved on and am currently remarried, children are with me and the ex is cleaning out the cob webs after a divorce so she can move on. Oh yea... did I mention she is coming out this summer to hang with us? Smile! you never know what it can bring you!. hugs to all Patricia Its time to come out of the closet. I know my log-in information is hidden behind the business but behind that facade is a mom and a step mom that has finally won. I was born and raised in Romania and at the age of 11 my parents moved us to NY. I had all the immigrant trials and tribulations. At the age of 17 I met my ex-husband, fell in love, blew off college and we got married 4 years later. That same year I gave birth to my daughter (15 now) and low and behold 3 months later I was pregnant with my son. I knew my husband was a drug user but I was going to make him better. I was going to fix him and when we had our kids things were going to be fine. I was going to be happy! Our marriage lasted 2 years, one bankruptcy, multiple affairs and multiple break ups. 5 months later he came back. I fell for it and we were seeing each other. That lasted about 1 more year sharing him with another woman. i left him for good along with my children one week before Fathers day without his knowledge due to his controlling nature. I move to Florida to be closer to my folks. From there I moved to California to begin a new life and that is when my nightmare began. I trusted my ex, he had convinced me that he had put his life back together and that he was willing to help me. I fell for it, asked him to watch the kids for 6 months and I moved. To make a long story short I had lost custody for 9 years. nine long years that I hardly saw my own children. I did help my current husband raise his wonderful boys but the feeling was not the same. I was not Mom I was Patty. My children have lived with me now for a year and i am sooooo proud of them and what they themselves have gone thru is short of a miracle. And so i will write about our challenges as a family, them as teens, and me as a real mom instead of a 3K mile mom. One beautiful moment was the other night when I was in the kitchen. The one spot light over the sink was on and my two children were over by the counter and were eating a dessert I made. They were all grown up, tall, smiling and happy. In walked my husband and was standing behind me when I realized that my dream of ten years had come true. Thank you God. 
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