Hey there! My name is Marcie Paige and I am busy, full-time stay-at-home mom and entrepreneur. My home business adventure started with Baby Grins, an online baby store, in 2007. It was a very exciting year for me, starting my first business and expecting the birth of my second daughter in June that same year.
During the last 5 years of running Baby Grins, I learned a lot about how to run a business. Along the way I also met a lot of other business owners and realized that running online retail store was not the only type of business I could successfully run out of the comfort of my own home.
As my kids got older, my interests began to change and grow, and I found myself being drawn back into my love for sign language. I successfully used baby sign language with both of my daughters and I realized that teaching baby sign language was a passion I wanted to follow.
I feel strongly about pushing you to be more actively involved with your children’s day-to-day activities, have a better understanding of how your kids think and feel, and provide you with the right steps to hold onto your ‘cool’ mom status and raise amazing kids at the same time!
A Little Look At The Formal Stuff:
After high school I persued a career as an American Sign Language interpreter, however, life got in the way and I was unable to complete the full program. I then completed a business administration and accounting program and worked as an administrative assistant and bookkeeper until my first daughter was born in 2005.
I then became a full-time stay-at-home mom (which I LOVE!). It was the best decision I’ve ever made and if I had it to do all over again I wouldn’t change a thing.
My love for american sign language has never subsided. I successfully used baby sign language with both of my daughters. I continue to study and expand my knowledge and skills with american sign language and baby sign language in my free time.
Now that we’ve got all the professional stuff out of the way, here is a little behind the scenes look.
10 things you don’t know about me:
- I usually have about 10 projects on the go at one time (personal or business).
- I fell in love with American Sign Language when I was in elementary school even though I didn’t know anyone who was deaf or could sign.
- I learned to knit and crochet when I was very young, I was in grade 5 when I knit my first baby sweater.
- I’m a very do-it-myself kind of person. I dabble in a lot of different things such as scrapbooking, sewing, piano, guitar, violin and web design. Almost everything I’ve learned is either self taught (Google is my best friend!) or learned from a family member.
- I’ve always known I wanted to be be an entrepreneur. As a teenager I was constantly scheming up ideas for a project. I made and sold jewelry, mittens, baby clothing and quilts.
- I am NOT a morning person. I hate having to get up in the mornings to get my daughter off to school. But I absolutely LOVE everything else about being a mom.
- I prefer to live in the country, I don’t like stepping out my front door and being able to see my neighbor.
- Now that I am an entrepreneur and work from home I struggle to ‘leave my work at work’.
- I prefer to pig out on fruits and berries rather than junk food and I feel like I’ve just eaten a treat.
- I would LOVE to take a salsa dance class with my husband but he says ‘no way!’ (oh, well. Maybe some day!)
Official Bio:
Marcie Paige is a creative and engaging baby sign language strategist and positive parenting advocate. Marcie creates baby sign strategy plans for new moms that are, fun, engaging and powerfully effective. The result: a warm and content home free of obsessive crying, temper tantrums and misbehaviour. A true reflection of how we dream our experience of being new mom will be.
