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Is Working From Home For You?

Do you dream of working from home? Do you want to be able to stay home with your children and still contribute to your family’s income, or do you want to get rich quick? If your goal is to get rich quick, you better have a million dollar idea that no one else has already thought of, otherwise you are going to be quickly disappointed. When you decide to work from home you have to determine why you want to do this, why is it important, is it really feasible with your family and lifestyle and how much money do … Continue reading →

Pairing Work and Homeschooling

Our fall schedule appears to be exploding, and so is my head. I’ve come to a realization that this is sometimes why people put their children in school: school is at one location and at a specific time. That seems so easy. Really, it’s not so bad. I’m just trying to wrap my head around our first official year of home learning, and my brain is exploding. That is all. At times like these, I wish I was a work at home or stay at home mom. However, I know that every life has different challenges. Stay at home moms … Continue reading →

To Work at Home or to Not Work at Home: That is the Question

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Okay, so I’m not nearly as funny as I think I am, but despite that horrible headline I just wrote, I do hope y’all get something out of this blog. I wanted to write today because I’ve been thinking lately about my choice back in March to come back home to go to work. It was basically going to be an “in between time” while I waited for school to start in May, so I could become an elementary school teacher. Last time I had worked from home, it was as a transcriptionist, and because I didn’t like transcribing, I … Continue reading →

Just Because You Have a Home Business – Doesn’t Mean You Have to Work from Home

I am so excited I can hardly stand it. Tomorow is “me-day”. While most women shop, get a facial, a pedicure, a massage or just veg-out in front of soaps on “me-day”, I work…and I love every minute of it. My “me-day” takes place on Thursdays when I drop my daughter off at preschool for four hours while my son spends a few hours at a local daycare. I make a bee-line for my favorite coffee shop. I order my favorite latte, Love Potion #9 (white chocolate and cinnamon) and I sit in my favorite cozy leather chair with my … Continue reading →

How to Stay Sane While Working From Home

I posted my story of my time in the work-from-home world in earlier this week–if you missed it, check it out here. That blog inspired this one: It is possible to stay sane while working from home, although sometimes it is more difficult than it would seem at first blush. When you work from home, you have almost no contact with the outside world unless you consciously work at it. Your spouse leaves for the day, and you are left by yourself, just you and your computer. The first couple of days go fine, but as time wears on, you … Continue reading →

Keeping House in the Age of Distraction

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I admit it. I’m distracted. There’s this thing that starts with an F and another that starts with a T. Let’s just say that they exist on the computer. Something to do with social networking, I think. There’s email, of course. Lots of that. Oh, and there are all of these blogs. Lots of them. And then there are the news articles, so many interesting tidbits of interesting things that I should definitely know about. I’m an information junkie, and I’m a mom. I’m also the one who does the bulk of the homemaking duties in our house. It’s a … Continue reading →

When My Husband’s Stressed…

The picture isn’t Wayne, I just thought it was funny… Life is H E Double Hockey Sticks! I’m a work-from-home/stay-at-home wife and pet parent. I have been for about eight years now. It was a big adjustment for both Wayne and I in the beginning. I had always been a working woman, was raised to be such, and had never planned on becoming “the woman of the house.” But when Wayne and I moved from Phoenix to Jacksonville –a move I didn’t want to make–Wayne enticed (a.k.a. bribed) me with the prospect of fulfilling my lifelong dream. The deal: I … Continue reading →

I’m Giving It Another Go

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In past blogs, I talked about how hard it was for me to work at home. I got lonely, I went a little stir crazy, I turned an awful pasty white color, and I spent most of my day talking to the dogs. Okay, I’ll admit it: I was actually talking to myself, not the dogs. I did talk to the dogs too, but it was more of a yelling tone of voice, “Will you just stop barking already??! I am going to kill you two!” Not really in-depth conversations happening there. As of Friday afternoon though, I am again … Continue reading →

If Courthouse Research Isn’t Full Time, Why Bother?

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This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher. If you haven’t heard of that job before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! In my last blog, I talked about how courthouse research is not a full-time job, except in rare cases (either the researcher is willing to cover lots of territory to get their 40 hours in, or the researcher happens to live in a very large city that doesn’t have a researcher already covering it, which is very rare.) Some people may say, “Well, if … Continue reading →

Marriage Stress: Coping with Burnout

Have you experienced burn out before? It can happen to us because of our jobs, our lifestyles and our commitments. One of the biggest jobs we have as spouses is to protect our spouses and to look after them. Part of looking after them is watching for these signs of burnout and providing them with the assistance and the support to recover from it. Burnout I’ve gone through burnout before. It’s a state where you’re exhausted, overwhelmed and lacking the will to continue facing the challenges that happen. This happened to me once when my daughter was an infant, I … Continue reading →