If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress

So, in my Technical Writing class, we were assigned as our last big project, a proposal. 

Not like this proposal

The night Aaron asked me to be his wife 

but like a business, or workplace proposal. You can see the assignment requirements here, but with this proposal, I decided to do something that would benefit me in the real world. I decided to write this proposal to Aaron, as if he was my boss, and suggest that we put Olivia in child care part time. (More on that actual proposal later)
We have been working on this project for about 2 weeks now, and my teacher has asked for a progress report. As some may already know, when you are given a large report of some sort to do at work, often your boss or supervisor will ask for an update on your progress. This assignment is to educate us students on how to write this in a professional manner. 
Here is my progress report:

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Memorandum

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To:              Sandy Jensen

From:         Crystal Smith   

Date:          March 3, 2016

Subject:     Progress Report on Child Care Proposal

This report is to inform you on the progress that has been made on the requested proposal on integrating child care into my family. The results that I have had while completing this proposal has been great. There have been minor set backs and issues that have come up, which I will explain more on that later, but I have been able to work around them, and found resolutions to. I am still on track to complete the proposal by March 13, 2016.

Progress to date

In the past two weeks I have researched, prepared, and outlined my thoughts in order to come up with a rough draft. I have found a great deal of information to share with you about how we would be able to integrate child care into our budget and schedule. I needed analyze our budget to see if it is even feasible,research and decide on 3 facilities, tour those facilities, and narrow my choice down to one. I do have a completed rough draft minus some minor details, as well as the budget chart. I have had two individuals from the class peer edit my paper. I am hoping to get more editing done, as the more the paper is seen the better it gets. The suggestions that my peers have made are on point as to where I want to go with this proposal. Since the bulk of the work is done, I am now going to work on making a chart/ graph to have a visual aide on the budget.

Problems Encountered

There have been very few problems that have occurred during this process. One was not being able to get a hold of two facilities in a timely manner. Even though I am working with a deadline, I needed to be able to not only contact the care facility to get information, but I feel it was detrimental for me to tour it as well. I wanted to see what went on at these locations, see how they interacted with the children, experience the activities offered, as well as how Olivia felt about each place. The second, and last issues was the budget, I am having a hard time finding a clean and concise way of making a display (visual aide) of our personal budget. I am sure that I will find a way to get it done.

Future Progress

In the next 5 days, as stated before I plan on completing the graph, finish final edits, and posting it on the blog. The last thing that I need to do is find a good picture/ pictures to accompany my proposal.

Conclusion

Although there is still much to be done, I feel that my overall progress has been on schedule. I do not feel that having the entirety of the project done by March 13, 2016 is unreasonable. It is a very realistic deadline and I do not think that I will have any issues meeting that deadline.

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Hope you are enjoying being apart of my education journey. I am going to leave you with a picture I took last week of Olivia and I doing our  "schoo-word" (1 year old talk for homework):

Olivia Grace 20 months old- 2/28/16