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10 Good Reasons to be a Stay at Home Mom
Many moms are choosing to stay home with their children for a number of good reasons: Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. 1 ) You may be able to give your child a better pre-school education than if your child was in a class of other pre-school children. Your child gets undivided attention from you, during all the time that you are teaching your child. 2) You get to spend quality playtime with your children. If they’re at a pre-school or at a day care centre their free play time is mostly just that – play time, and you’re not there to watch them and admire them while they play, and you’re not there to play with … Read entire article »
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Three Days With No Internet
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. No Internet through our Telkom ADSL line. Not nice when Tony and I use the Internet a lot for our freelance work. It was actually the evening before yesterday that our monthly Internet usage allowance ran out. Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. We will get more Internet when the new month starts, on the 1st of November, in two days’ time (probably the same day we publish this blog post – update: only published this post on 4 November, not 1 November as originally planned!), and in future we will monitor our usage more … Read entire article »
Transition from Stay at Home Mom to Work from Home Mom
You’re a mom and you’ve never really had a fulltime job or steady income, or you haven’t needed to work at all, but now you are realising that you need to bring in a little extra income, or you may just want to earn some money for yourself so that you can feel more independent. Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. You still want to stay at home, though. So you decide to become a work from home mom in addition to being a stay at home mom. What to do? You haven’t a clue. You should try and do something … Read entire article »
Working From Home Before Becoming a Mom
It could be any one of a number of reasons why a woman may be working from home before becoming a mom. This does not mean that she will always be working from home. Once a working from home woman becomes a mom, she may decide to look for a fulltime job, or may need to look for a fulltime job, even if what she really wants is to continue working from home fulltime. Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. The work a woman has been doing from home may not be earning her all that much money, and … Read entire article »
Difference Between Work from Home Mom and Stay at Home Mom
Is there really a difference between a work from home mom and a stay at home mom? Even moms who do not earn anything while they stay at home still do some work, don’t they? It is still work to take care of and bring up children, make meals, and keep the house clean and tidy. Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. So if work from home moms work, and stay at home moms also work, then the difference between them must be that the one earns an income from the work she does, while the other doesn’t. At … Read entire article »
10 Ways to Save Money at Christmas Time
Moms know best. But for those moms feeling a little stressed as Christmas time approaches because their finances are not so great, they may not be able to think as clearly as they usually do. Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. Relieve a bit of that stress, by applying some of these 10 methods of saving money at Christmas time – also consider applying some of these methods of saving money to other times of the year too, so that next Christmas you won’t be as broke as you are this Christmas. 1 ) What to drink at Christmas Time: Kids (and … Read entire article »
An Evening and Morning of Little Errors
Just another day in the life of this work from home mom – or an evening and morning, made more interesting because of the little errors people make. Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. Since we’ve never quite understood it, and never quite got it right in a little over 5 years, when my brother was visiting my parents (in whose house Tony and I live) the other afternoon, he and I finally tackled the burglar, oops, I mean burglar alarm system. For house security reasons, my folks hardly ever go out at the same time that Tony and I … Read entire article »
Should a Stay at Home Mom Send Her Child to School?
Are you a stay at home mom who has a child that is now old enough to attend pre-primary school, and you’re wondering if you should wait until your child starts grade 1? Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in November 2012. You chose to be a stay at home mom or work from home mom mostly so that you could spend more time with your child or children, but now you’re wondering if you should let your child experience some schooling ahead of grade one, or ahead of beginning home schooling with you. Well, the decision lies with only you, but let’s … Read entire article »
What Fun it is – not – to Lose a School Tie
Well, in East London anyway, and when that tie is a Lilyfontein School tie. The tie in question is gone, never to be found again, but here’s the story about trying to replace that missing school tie: Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in October 2012. My eldest son lost his Lilyfontein School tie towards the end of the third term of school this year. We searched high and low, and everywhere inbetween, but that tie could not be found. Now, since Lilyfontein high school children only wear their “smart” clothes (blazer and all) on Fridays, and since the third term was virtually … Read entire article »
No Electricity for 10 Hours!
Wow, discovered today how much we depend on electricity and take it for granted, but also that how without it, life goes on, and is not all that bad. Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in October 2012. Apparently there was an announcement in the newspaper recently that there would be no electricity all day Sunday (today) from 8am to somewhere between 4 and 5pm while Eskom did some maintenance work or something, but we’re TnT (Terry and Tony) and are “switched off” from the real world and hardly read newspapers etc, and my dad who does read newspapers didn’t see the … Read entire article »
Christmas and Creative Work from Home Moms
Christmas is the season for giving, so do not start feeling guilty about thinking of making some money from the Christmas season – people have to buy their Christmas gifts somewhere so why not from you? Note: this content used to be on another site which we have since cancelled. It was posted on the other site in October 2012. Work from home moms may be feeling troubled as Christmas day draws closer – if the work they do from home is offering a service, they may have no clients over the Christmas season, while their clients take a break from work over Christmas. Of course this is fine if these work from home moms can afford to … Read entire article »
