Sep
5th

2 of His Many Loves

Check out Hunter’s love of Chicken Little and Dancing.

Of course once he saw the light on the camera all was lost in the dancing department. :)

Sep
5th

It’s Only 8 AM

Zachman headed back to school yesterday and so now we’re on a routine of sorts around here. Needless to say this mama is having a hard time adjusting! I got in the habit of working late at night over the summer, but now that school’s back in session I have to be up at 5:30 every morning. uugghh!

Did pretty good yesterday, hit the snooze button until 6AM, but I got up and had plenty of time to get Zach up, ready and headed off on the bus just after 7. I even chatted with the newest neighbor for awhile after the kids took off to school. Actually, I chatted with her over coffee until almost 10, yesterday. It was definitely a nice change of pace for me. But…there’s always a but isn’t there? It kind of put me behind for the rest of the day.

Today, I ended up sleeping until almost 20 minutes to 7 and had hubby not called, well I’d probably still be sleeping. :) Actually nah I wouldn’t have because our neighbor’s kids came over to catch the bus here since Mom had to head back to work today.

I was seriously considering heading back to bed once I got them all on the bus, but instead I came in did a bit of work, put last night’s clean dishes away, vacuumed the living room and the office, made Hunter and I blueberry waffles, AND typed one blog entry (make it 2 now). All BEFORE 8:30 AM! Woah Baby…don’t know what’s gotten into me, but I like it and hope it lasts the whole day through…I could definitely use a productive day today!

Here’s to everyone having a great and productive day! Let me know how yours went in the comments section.

Sep
5th

Learn What It Takes To Be a Full Time WAHM

I’ve been a full time work at home mama for just over a year now and though there are hard times, I wouldn’t trade being able to make a decent living while staying home for my family for anything in the world.

During this time I’ve learned a lot of things that, had I known when I first started learning about becoming a work at home mom, I would have been typing this in my almost 7th year in business. Yes, I started looking for ways to stay at home when Zach was 3 years old. As a matter of fact, I can remember planning to start a virtual assistant business back in the year 2000.

Of course, I didn’t know a thing about VAs or how I was going to get clients, so it didn’t pan out back then. But here we are in 2007, and now I make enough money each month to pay almost every one of our monthly bills after only 1 year as a full time VA. :)

So, what are my keys to actually doing instead of dreaming? One of them was finding like minded individuals who were already making it with their online business and who were willing to help me make sense of it all.

But, that’s just one of the things. Find out more of what made a difference for me and 16 other work at home moms by checking out Carrie Lauth’s Full Time WAHM Money report by clicking here!