Why do moms work from home? Because we want to be home for our kids, mostly. Which means we sometimes have to work when our children are wanting our attention. I have the perfect get-20-productive-minutes-out-of-them-scheme: pull out their mini-office. Tell your child that not only do you have to work, you have a project for them too. Then pull out a box with their work in it. Here is a list of what we have in our box:

• washable markers
• free printables, coloring pages
• pencils
• old day timer
• stickers
• glue stick
• paper; white and colored

Here are some sites to get some free printables for your child’s ‘office’:

• http://abcteach.com/
  
• http://coloringbookfun.com/
  
• http://www.kidsturncentral.com/printables.htm

Yes, I know it is September, but how far have you gotten on your Christmas list? Me? Not as far as I would like. So, I’m turning to a site that will help me get organized and I thought you might benefit from it too. Just think of how much more blogging you can do when you don’t have the last minute Christmas rush that moms are overcome with because we have too much to do and not enough time.

Here is my favorite part of the site, click and discover what it can do for you too: http://organizedchristmas.com/houseworks-holiday-plan/house-room-week

I know you think I’m kidding, but I am absolutely not! This essential will help you get what you need completed and keep your family happy. How? It’s very simple. You get the sign, make one if you want, and show it to all those you love and who love you so much that they need your attention when you’re blogging. Then you tell them you are out-at-the-office when the sign is hung up on the door. You do not wish to answer the phone, you cannot help them with homework and they will need to learn to wipe their own butts until after the sign comes down.

The more you keep firm on these rules, the better your family will be able to handle your work schedule at home. Of course, there are a few rules for you to live by when the sign is up:

• Before you put the sign up, make a list of what you will be getting done while it is up. Touch base with everyone and let them know the sign is going up and approximately when it will come down.
• Put the sign up and work – be productive. Get through your list as efficiently as possible.
• If you are going to take a break, take the sign down.
• When the sign comes down, touch base with your family again.

Get your sign and look forward to more productive days!

This is a pretty big question, because there are many reasons why people work outside of the home. I found in the beginning that working at home was the hardest thing I ever did. Sure, no boss to bug me, but the baby crying when I’m in the middle of any type of coherent thought that I need to type out, well that certainly is a different type of work stress, lemme tell ya!

Here are ten questions to ask yourself that will help you decide if working from home is right for you:

1. Can you work with home life distractions?
2. Can you take not having other people around?
3. Are you ready for the ups and downs of your pay?
4. Are you a go-getter?
5. Are you organized?
6. Can you multi-task?
7. Can you stand your ground when people ask you to do other things because you’re ‘at home during the day’ and not ‘at work’?(this includes your spouse and mother)
8. Have you ever pulled yourself up by your boot straps? Could you again if you needed to?
9. Do you have your stress under control?
10. Do you normally follow through until you reach your goals or do you give up easily?

When you have a family, it costs money to work. doesn’t seem to make sense, but it does. And the amount is huge when you take all of the factors in. Some women take a good hard look at their budgets before kids and decided they are better off staying at home because their salary will not even cover the costs of daycare. Incrediable, isn’t it? In fact I know of a daycare worker who couldn’t afford to send her two young children to the daycare where she worked. That is crazy!

But our economy isn’t about to change and us meager middleclass moms, who everyone tends to quote in the media but not really give a damn about, are just going to have to live within it. To that end, I have decided to help you all add up the cost of mom working and see where it leaves you. This way you will be able to do a budget with your making money blog. We’ll look into how that works in another post.

Fold a lined piece of paper in half from top to bottom. On one side title it ‘Money Coming In’, on the other side title it ‘Money Going Out’.

Add up on the Money Coming In side: salary, bonuses, benefits your employer pays.

Add up on the Money Going Out side: daycare, lunches out, clothing and uniforms you wear to work(include shoes), gas and transportation to and from work, gas to and from daycare, and then the misc. money you spend on co-workers gifts and such.

Subtract the going out from the coming in and take a good look at the figure that is left. That is your first goal for your blog. That is how much money you want it to make if you are thinking about leaving your job and working from home.

A glitch: health insurance. If you are the one working for health insurance, keep your job. Young families need these benefits and health insurnace is too expensive. That doesn’t mean you can’t still work a blog and make a few extra bucks, but imho, health insurance is worth it.

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