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A few months ago, I read a \u201cThanks to my sponsors\u201d post on another blog. In it, the blogger thanked all of her site sponsors for the month. I thought that was really cool and decided to imitate that with my larger sponsors. (I forgot the name of the blog that I was reading or I would link to it.) Sponsors are the reason that I get to do what I love\u2026work from home while raising my kids.<\/p>\n

Now that the kids are both settled into school and doing well, my financial \u201cagreement\u201d with my husband has changed. My income is no longer the extra \u201cgravy\u201d\u2026it\u2019s now a part of our family budget! As long as I can continue to make an agreed-upon amount each month working from home, I don\u2019t need to look for an outside of the home job. That is where my \u201cspecial\u201d thanks to Special K comes into play. Due to the checks that they sent me this month along with a couple of other projects that I am working on, I \u201cget\u201d to continue working from home for 2013. Everything else that I make is \u201cgravy\u201d. \ud83d\ude42 (Now, you all know that I\u2019m from the south. I love myself some gravy, so I will still be working hard!)<\/p>\n

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\nAnyway, I\u2019ve primarily told the \u201cSpecial K story\u201d on Facebook, but I\u2019ll tell it here now\u2026\n

Back in 2011, TheMotherhood<\/a> contracted me to be a \u201cSpecial K Resolution Reporter\u201d at a What Will You Gain When You Lose? <\/a>event in Times Square. The first thing that we did at the event was get interviewed on camera before stepping on to a giant scale. The \u201cweight\u201d was inspirational phrases or words that captured the emotional benefit of achieving weight loss goals \u2013 not numbers. I weighed in at \u201cConfident\u201d. (I had even made a video of the event\u2026)<\/p>\n

After I did my assignment, I moved on to the next thing. I had no idea that my response, \u201cConfidence, I like that!<\/strong><\/em>\u201d would lead to one of the most fun and lucrative relationships in my 8 year blogging career! Later that month (January of 2011), I was notified that my image had been chosen to appear in an Internet commercial. That was cool and a nice little unexpected bonus since it fell under the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) commercial contract. After that, I once again promptly forgot about it. Then in November of 2011, I was notified that a portion of my clip from the event was selected to be used in a new national on-air commercial, which meant that I would get residual payments every time that it was shown. Score! So, in 2012, my portion of the clip ran in three different commercial cycles (two \u201cNew Year, New You\u201d themed ones and an \u201cOlympics\u201d themed one). How cool is that?!<\/p>\n

While the financial aspect of being in the commercials was wonderful, there was a special added bonus. Friends and family from around the country started calling, emailing and sending Facebook messages asking if I was in that commercial. I have reconnected with some really great old friends based on that four-word clip! I\u2019m so happy about that. My kids have been super funny about the commercial though. Michael (my 8-year-old) initially expressed that it wasn\u2019t that great. (He is right, but still\u2026) However, over time, it became \u201cmy\u201d Special K commercial in his mind. Recently, he saw one of the Special K commercials and the actress used the word \u201cconfidence\u201d in it. Michael and Sean came running into the room that I was in to tell on her. \u201cOh no she didn\u2019t,\u201d Michael said. \u201cConfidence is your<\/strong><\/span> word. How dare she try to take your line\u2026\u201d I cracked up at his misguided indignation, but it was super sweet.<\/p>\n

In any event, thank you Special K for sponsoring me without even knowing it. Thanks for the checks. Thanks for the rekindled relationships. Thanks for \u201cSpecial K\u201d equaling \u201cSpecial Kim\u201d in the minds of my kids. I\u2019m grateful!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"