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Balancing Home And Work Is Not Always Easy

If you work from home in addition to being a stay at home parent, you might feel overwhelmed sometimes. Raising kids is a full time job, and aside from nap time (if your child still takes naps) you may not be able to get much work done until after the kids are in bed. Also, as an adult member of the household, you probably have quite a few chores that you are responsible for. Add in trying to find time to exercise, time to pursue your own interests, and time to spend with your spouse or partner and there are … Continue reading →

Is A Home – Based Business Opportunity What You Need?

Here on the home – based business blog, we often talk about how to start your own home – based business. Owning and operating your own business is not the only route to the home – based professional lifestyle. There are home – based jobs, and there are also business opportunities available that are essentially turn – key. You can buy into one of these existing businesses and learn how to run it. If you are interested in finding a home based business opportunity, you may be feeling a little overwhelmed. When you search the internet for “home based business”, … Continue reading →

Don’t Let Business Get in the Way of Fitness

Home – based professionals often have a hard time fitting in fitness, just like people who work outside of the home. However, making time to squeeze a workout into most of your days is a great idea because it boosts your energy and keeps you healthy. It could also help to keep your health care costs down, which can be very important if you have no health insurance or can only afford a plan that covers the most basic care. There are a few ways that a home – based professional can include fitness in his or her day. If … Continue reading →

Diary of a Work-at-Home Mom Part 10

This evening is the last evening of our vacation. We will be enjoying breakfast with my dad, my sister, and her fiancee before we hit the road for a five hour drive home tomorrow. As I think about returning home after this vacation, I am unsure about how I will feel once I am back home. We have enjoyed our time here, but it is quite possible that I will welcome a return to our usual schedule. When we return home, I will be returning to my normal work schedule. There is plenty of work waiting for me when I … Continue reading →

Diary of a Work at Home Mom Part 9

If you work from home and you want to take a vacation, sometimes it is possible to take care of business and get things to a point where you can leave it all at home for a week save for the occasional phone call or email. Many times though, in order to be able to take a vacation you must be willing to take at least a little work with you. This week, I am on vacation. My husband, my son, and I left Vermont last night and drove to Cape Cod to meet up with my dad, my sister, … Continue reading →

Read Your Way To A More Successful Writing Business

One of the most important things that a home-based professional can do to ensure the success of his or her business is making professional development an ongoing activity. No matter what type of home-based business you have, there is always something more that you can learn about it. By regularly taking time to read books or attend classes, you can keep current with the latest news and information about your industry while you learn skills that can help you with every area of your home-based business. Personally, my favorite type of professional development activity is reading books. I like reading … Continue reading →

Teaching Business by Being a Business

As I go through my day I am teaching my children about daily life. They learn about paying bills, dealing with siblings, parenting, how to handle frustration, making dinner, doing laundry and all the homemaking chores required to run a home. These are important skills to teach both boys and girls. These are skills best learned on the job and not conducted in a classroom setting or at the dining room table. My children learn how to make dinner by making dinner. My son learned how to become the best pancake maker in the house by doing every step from … Continue reading →

It Was a Great Day to Work at Home

Do you ever have one of those days where you think to yourself “THIS is why I work from home”? I hope that at least occasionally you have a day like that, a day where you are filled with a sense of all of the wonderful things that can happen when you work from home. Lucky me, I had one of them today. I am taking the time to write about it so that when I am having one of those other days; you know the ones that leave you feeling negatively about the whole working from home thing, I … Continue reading →

Yes, You Can Work At Home! Part 2

Working at home is increasing in popularity, especially amongst moms with children who are trying to raise their family and bring in a much needed income. Single moms are even finding that this is a possibility. While raising your children, earning an income, and tending to the other numerous responsibilities and chores that makes up the life of “Mom” is a juggling act it is being done in many households. When this is what makes up your life you find that prioritizing is essential in making it all come together. Work at home jobs come in all skill levels. Below … Continue reading →

Wives Who Work From Home – Bringing Home the Bacon

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A couple of days ago, we talked about the fact that yes honey, I do have a job and we heard from wives who are facing this same problem with their husbands. One reader asked the question of how do you communicate this message to them. I gave a response in the comments section, but I thought it deserved a little more discussion here. Bringing Home the Bacon When we as wives, work from home, we do so for a variety of reasons. For myself, personally, it has to do with the fact that I want to be here for … Continue reading →