With the pandemic changing lives and disrupting routines everywhere, it's no surprise that many people are deciding to change up how they work. Remote work has become more accepted and commonplace than ever before, and people are ditching their unpleasant and unrewarding jobs to try to make a better life working from home. For people with a passion for helping others, the … [Read more...]
What Moms and Social Workers Have in Common
As my children get older, I know my time as a stay-at-home mom will come to an end. The kids will one day not be here at home. My role in my home will shift. I think that is exciting! I have put so much of myself and my goals into my work as a mom. I am soaking in the present while also looking forward to what is next after my children are grown. Life can and will change. … [Read more...]
Back to School for Moms: Portable Career Options
This post is a paid #AD for Medcerts. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure. As a military spouse, all the experiences I had moving around when I was young taught me valuable lessons. A mom who can flex to her family’s needs is vital to the balance of her home. I learned that any career I had after my kids were grown, had to move with us in order to keep our … [Read more...]
15 Ways to Use Custom Vinyl Stickers
This is a sponsored post by StickerYou. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure for more info. Whether you have a home-based business or are looking for ways to get organized at home, these 15 ways to use vinyl stickers for home organization or home-based business use will make things look more put together. There are so many ways to use … [Read more...]
How to Transition from Career Woman to Stay-at-Home Mom
We think that our babies are going to constantly fuel us with the energy and love of being stay-at-home moms. The transition from career woman to stay-at-home mom appears simple at first. The desire in our heart and mind to spend all the quality time with our children is what we want to follow. The simplicity of one focus rather than balancing work and home. The … [Read more...]
Seek Happiness as a Mom
{Post by Heather} In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a couple of encounters with other women that have left me feeling less than. It’s happened before and unfortunately, it’s bound to happen again. I know it’s not something that women do on purpose or because they’re judging me, but it irks me none-the-less as I try to seek happiness as a mom. So what could these women … [Read more...]
How to Build a Home-Based Business
I never wanted to work while my kids were young. Being a stay-at-home mom was my first priority. I set my sights on being wife and mom in my first 10 years of marriage. Then, my husband’s job became a little less secure. I chose to build a home-based business on my time to help our financial future. About ten years in to our marriage, my husband’s military retirement seemed … [Read more...]
Accepting Yourself for the Mom You Are
Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Heather} Long before I became a mother I had a lot of preconceived notions about what kind of mom I thought I’d be. I was going to be the best mom. The mom who never yelled. I would only speak … [Read more...]
My Will Versus Motherhood
Every day I seem to notice a new opportunity to choose my individual goals and achievement over my family. There are volunteer opportunities, opportunities for career development, and plans for income that would require realigning my family focus to the side of the spotlight. Sometimes I struggle with my will versus motherhood. I am always weighing the impact on my family of … [Read more...]
Building a Family is Work
How do we create peace on Earth? Create peace in the hearts and minds of each child born on this planet. I truly believe if we provide a solid family foundation before we send our children off into the world, and provide soft, trusted, respectful places to land when times get tough, the world would be closer to peace than it is now. Building a family is work-hard … [Read more...]
Does Being A Stay-at-Home Mom Matter?
Are our children going to turn out fine no matter what? Is it all out of our control? I have read comments stating that being a stay-at-home mom does not matter. The choices we make as moms has no affect on our children. I think-as a mom of four who has been doing this parenting thing for 10 years now-every choice we make when it comes to … [Read more...]
Motherhood Is Not Easy
Exhausted, over-stretched, grasping to figure out if I was a successful mom that day. Of course, I never feel that way on just one day. "Things worth doing are never easy" comes to mind when I think of being a mother, but the bad days can get very draining. We could let ourselves view motherhood as a sentence rather than a celebration. After weaning my second child … [Read more...]