CATCH UP ~ What’s happened so far, and what’s next...

It’s been a few months since we first came up with the concept of ourmilkmoney, and we haven’t been in touch with some of you since the beginning of the year.

We're truly excited to share with you what we've been up to since that time. Here is a quick update:

It started with a basic email campaign to friends and family....

In that first letter we sent out, we described our passion for helping parents find a way to stay home with their children, we outlined a basic plan for our mission, and we waited to see what the reaction to our idea would be.

Almost immediately we were inundated with a mass of positive responses, all exceptionally supportive and optimistic. We made a quick decision to dive into this venture with every ounce of enthusiasm we had and persevere. Word spread fast and our message began circulating across the country through forwarded emails, blogs, message boards and forums. We purchased a domain, set up a couple of email accounts and watched with excitement as the messages streamed in, averaging about 80 inquiries a day!

At this point it became clear to us how important our purpose was, and how much hope we were giving to parents all over the country by sharing our ambition. We were required to adjust our focus to the greater task at hand, and expand our objective to include each of you, our prospective members. Through you, we were able to see clearly what ourmilkmoney.com needed to accomplish, and we used those ideas to shape our new vision.

Instead of creating a basic yet functional website ourselves to launch in February, we decided to search for a gifted web creator to implement our ideas and construct an ideal and powerful system, scheduled to launch in March. You can read about our web team here.

So... just as it was when we first conceptualized Our Milk Money, our purpose remains strong, and our vision has now grown much broader, in both scope and geography. Every day, more parents continue to apply to appear in the searchable online directory -- and we can't wait for the public launch of OurMilkMoney.com in March!

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