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What to Know about the Glow

Glow sticks are extremely popular this time of year.  You can find kids sporting them at summer fireworks shows, evening baseball games, backyard barbeques and during bike rides at dusk.  My 8-year-old loves to bend them into bracelets, necklaces and headbands and wear them while we stroll along the beach after sunset. While I’m game for the glow, other parents are not as thrilled to see their kids playing with the popular, yet potentially poisonous neon sticks.  Many moms and dads question the contents of glow sticks.  After all, if the liquid inside the sticks can make plastic light up like … Continue reading →

8 Things Kids Need to Know about Money

It is never too early to start teaching your children about money. While many parents shy away from discussing financial issues with their kids, this can be one of the biggest mistakes that they make. Instilling good habits and a basic understanding about how finances work can give your child an edge that will stay with him or her for a lifetime. 1. There is a difference between the things that you want and the things that you need. Wants versus needs can be a tough concept for kids to understand, but teaching them that real necessities must be met … Continue reading →

Baby’s First Snow Adventure

This past weekend, we got a monster snow storm. My kids were all excited to go play in the snow. It just kept falling, and there was plenty of snow right in our backyard to build a snowman and even a little sledding hill. While I love looking at the snow from my warm house, sometimes, the thought of getting the kids all bundled up seems exhausting, and I leave it up to my husband. But, this time, I was anxious to get the baby out in the snow and let him experience his first snowfall since last year he … Continue reading →

I Am Stronger Now

Being a single parent changes you, there’s no doubt about that. Every day I’m surprised by the things I never thought I could do that I do now, without even batting an eye. I was very much a traditional wife. I worked outside of the home but at home I did all the housework, laundry, cooking and child care. I gardened a little in my flower beds and vegetable garden but the major yard work was left to my ex husband. I took care of the inside of my house, he took care of the outside. It worked, but it … Continue reading →

Getting Ready For Yard Work

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It’s time for yard work and if you haven’t already, it’s time to drag out the lawn and garden tools. Now if you are like most people all of your yard equipment was carefully cleaned and prepped before it was stored away for the winter. If you are like me, you thought you had one more weekend to get to the chore. Then the cold and snow came and, if you are like me, you quickly shoved everything in the shed and locked the door. Now you have to open that door and deal with the mess. I find it’s … Continue reading →

Have You Considered Working The Night Shift?

One of the ways that some home – based professional parents manage to stay at home during the day with their children is working at night. This strategy can also be used by parents who work outside of the home as well. To those who are not in the know, the options for work during the “graveyard shift” may seem to be limited to twenty four hour stores, freelance writing, or working as a nurse or a security guard. There are many more things that get done during the night, though, and expanding your knowledge of what those things are … Continue reading →

Famous Yard Sale

Celebrities and reality TV, it’s the American way, or so it seems. Not exactly what comes to mind when you think of housecleaning. Now, apparently there is a new reality TV show. Famous Yard Sale, in which celebrities will clean and organize their homes, selling off things they no longer need and donating the profits to charity. Are you laughing, because I am. First of all, how many celebrities clean their own homes? I mean really, between the nannies and the housekeepers do you think they ever change a diaper much less vacuum. Reality TV is really the worst garbage … Continue reading →

Now is a Great Time to Start One of These Businesses

Even though it is still winter, if you have been tossing around the idea of starting a home – based business in lawn maintenance, gardening, or landscaping, now is a good time to finalize your business plan so that you can open your business this spring. If you begin now, you will be able to get yourself organized and make a clear plan for what you want to do with your business. You can also take your time to search for the best prices on any equipment that you may need for your business. Even more importantly, you will have … Continue reading →

Yard Work in December

We are having some unseasonably warm days. Usually this time of year we have already shoveled snow several times, this year, we’ve been lucky. It was in the 50’s today so I was able to get some yard work done. That seems so strange to say in December. I have a very little yard but a very big tree. There are lots of leaves. Usually because it snows so early and so often I don’t get all the leaves before the snow falls, this year, I was able to get them. I raked once in the fall but the tree … Continue reading →

Homeschooling and the Work-at-Home Mom, Part One

This last August, Richele wrote a great article about being a homeschooling mom and running a home business at the same time. Those of us who like to operate from home seem to do it in a multi-facted way, don’t we? I thought I’d take a few minutes to add my thoughts to Richele’s. I am a homeschooling mom, and I have been since my children were born. I was taught at home, so it seemed perfectly natural to me. What would be weird is sending my kids to public school. I am also a work-at-home mom. I’ve done this … Continue reading →