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Winter Gear For Your Snow Baby

If your baby is coming soon, you may already have stocked up on blankets, hats, and cozy clothes for your little one’s cold – weather arrival. Of course you will want to ensure that baby is warm enough during the winter. However, it is also important to consider safety while selecting which items you will use to keep him cozy. For example, there are many baby buntings and snow suits in the stores right now. Did you know that it is not safe to place baby in a car seat while he is in a bunting or snow suit? The … Continue reading →

Are You the Right Person?

Have you ever thought about whether or not you are the right person to have a home-based business? We have all heard the phrase, “The right person for the job.” Well that applies to those who work inside the home as well as outside. It may surprise you to learn that not everyone is cut out for working at home. Working from home requires a certain type of person. One of the ways you can know if you are the right person to work at home is if you are disciplined. It takes a great deal of it to make … Continue reading →

Value Your Time – Part 2

This is the second part of my series on dealing with time issues in your home-based business. In my last blog, I discussed tackling time-wasters and distractions. In today’s blog, I am going to address the importance of valuing your time. What I mean by this is placing greater importance on how you spend your time instead of trying to be superwoman or superman. I’ll be honest. I am not impressed when someone rattles off how busy they are. My eyes start to glaze over when someone goes on and on about how they never have time for fun, enjoyable … Continue reading →

Is Working from Home Right for You?

How do you know if working from home is right for you? It’s important to know this before you take the plunge. First, consider if something you do as a hobby could be turned into a home business. There are so many ways this can be done. Maybe you can make a killer cheesecake. Or you know how to design some really cool jewelry. It could be that you are great at organizing. Virtually anything we enjoy as a hobby could potentially be turned into a business. Think outside the box. This may be the first step in deciding if … Continue reading →

How Surprises Can Affect Your Home Business

Sometimes, life throws surprises your way. Whether the surprises are happy ones or not, they are likely to affect your home – based business in one way or another. Since surprises happen unexpectedly, it is difficult to prepare for them. The key to recovering from a major surprise is to react to is as best you can. Last Friday, I received a very big surprise. I had to go to the hospital for an ultrasound and some lab tests. At the time I thought that I was about thirty six weeks pregnant. That meant that I still had approximately another … Continue reading →

How Many Hats Do You Wear?

Have you ever really thought about the many hats that you wear? Most of us who run a home-based business have many other responsibilities. We may be married, have children, do volunteer work, care for a family member and the list goes on. Sometimes I find that I am trying to wear more than one hat at a time, especially in working from home. In the middle of my day I might have to take care of an errand for my husband. Or I may have to pick up my kids from school, only to go back a couple of … Continue reading →

How do you do it?

“How do you do it?” “I could never do everything you do!” “You amaze me.” I have heard it all. I have heard how amazing I am to how I must be a master of time management. My friend told me that she could never do everything I do. I responded with, “that’s okay, I cannot either.” I am a mom, homeschooler, wife, freelance writer, blogger, and business owner. Among those aspects of my life come other “hats” and responsibilities. However, I am here to tell you that I am not amazing. I am not a master of time management. … Continue reading →

Keeping Your Little Ones Safe this Halloween

Halloween is only a few days away. Have you planned out your trick-or-treating route yet? It is important to make sure your children are trick-or-treating in a familiar area and know exactly where they are going the night of Halloween. The last thing you would want is your child to wander off and get lost in the middle of nowhere! Always make sure there is an adult with your child. Some kids like to go trick-or-treating in a big group of friends. While there tends to be safety in numbers it is still important to have at least one adult … Continue reading →

Deal With Those Things You Do Not Use

There are things that you buy that you love, and you use them until they are all used up (if they are consumables) or all worn out if they are things like clothes or shoes. Then there are those things that you may not want to talk about. Things that you have bought that you do not use, or that you never wear. Things that cost you money, things that are just sort of in your home (or a storage unit) taking up space. This is not a topic that people enjoy discussing because no one wants to admit to … Continue reading →

Are You Ready for Winter?

I’m not. We’ve been this close to being walloped with a blizzard for the last two weekends, but mercifully have scraped by with just minor snow accumulation. However, this is Wisconsin, and I know it is just a matter of time before we get slammed with a foot or more of snow—in less than a 12-hour period. As a parent of a 6-year-old, this means dealing with the drudgery of making sure she has the proper winter gear. Of course, given her recent growth spurt that basically translates into me forking over an arm and a leg so that she … Continue reading →