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Why Working from Home as a Mom Is So Much Harder than You Thought

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This post is sponsored by BBVA Compass but all opinions are my own. Sometimes I try to imagine what my life would be like if I had never started working from home. What would I fill my days worried about? What would my parenting look like? How happy or not would I be? Would we be able to afford our current family size, doctorate tuition, and ...

Why Even Manic Mondays are the Best {as Long as You Do This}

A Monday not too long ago I did what you would imagine a busy mom with four kids to be found doing: I washed all of our laundry. I loaded and ran the dishwasher, wiped down the counters, the stove, the table and chairs, swept under desks, and couches, and even under our rug and readjusted it. Then I mopped. I wiped butts, changed diapers, and ...

The Secrets to Doing it All as a Homeschooling Work From Home Mom

"How do you do it?" The infamous question we ask of friends and strangers who have even more on their plates than we do - more kids, more jobs, more responsibilities, more goals, more patience, more everything. We often ask this because we just can't fathom adding one more thing to our already busy lives, let alone do it as well as they seem to ...

How to Know If You’re Cut Out to be a Blogger

"Oh, you're a blogger? That's nice." Whenever I tell someone that I blog, most people seem to have no idea what it is I do. Sometimes they know someone who has a blog, and often it is a family update blog with pictures of that's person's home and family. Others know blogs because they pin recipes, DIYs, pictures, and crafts on Pinterest and ...

21 of the Best Survey Sites for Moms that Pay Cash!

Back before I was doing this blogging thing for money, I was often looking for simple ways to make money online while a stay at home mom to supplement our income. So, I looked to get paid to take surveys online, especially surveys that pay cash. I enjoyed how easy it was to spend a few minutes each day giving my opinion in online surveys for cash. ...

How I am Growing a Successful Blog

I love blogging. Absolutely love it. It's so much fun to write about things that resonate with people, help them better manage their homes, educate them about great new products, and speak to their souls. I love all the comments and shares I receive and am grateful, and humbled, for every single one. And I now especially love that my blog is ...

All Work and No Play – 8 Tips for Overcoming Your Inner Work-a-holic

Work, work, work all the time! When your "work" is your passion, your hobby, and something you want to do all the time, something you think about constantly, it is really hard to step back and make sure things really are balanced correctly in your life. This is especially true for work at home moms, like me. I am a blogger over at What's up ...

How do you make money blogging?

How do you make money blogging? I get asked this question a lot in real life. While it seems most people are familiar with the terms "blog" and "blogger," most people reference them in connection with family update blogs, ones that don't make money, but contain lots of pictures of happy kids and happy families with the occasional rant or thoughtful ...

What My Life is Really Like Behind the Blog

One of my best blogging friends Katie Clark of Clarks Condensed asked several bloggers to join her in sharing what life really looks like "Behind the Blog" as we make recipes, crafts, decor, work, or whatever, to share that our homes don't always look as picture perfect as our blogs may lead you to believe. Lucky for my readers, I don't edit out ...

An Entrepreneur in Every Home

This is a sponsored post by A Billion Entrepreneurs and Business 2 Bloggers. All opinions are my own. I am a stay at home mom. I have been for almost four years. It hasn't always been an easy road, but it's a worthy sacrifice. My kids are great kids. But, I often wonder what I'll do when I "grow up," or really, when my kids have. What will I do ...

Productive Parenting App

It's giveaway time! And I am so excited to be teaming up with Productive Parenting and Strider Bikes to bring you an awesome (free!) app that you're going love - and a chance to win one of five Strider Bikes! Thousands of Activities for Kids! Productive Parenting has been around for years - offering fast and simple activities that you can do with ...

The Scary Side of Blogging

In one of my of blogging Facebook groups, someone shared a post about a blogger who made a bad PR choice, I guess you could say. She sent out several emails to various local restaurants asking who would like to host her family of five for dinner on Christmas Eve, and she would, in return for five free meals, share pictures on Instagram, tweet it, ...