I have done meal planning posts before, but today I wanted to take some of the information and make it more organized and easier to follow. For several years our food budget was $75 a week to feed a family of four. I often still stay under the $100 mark, although I have since been able to raise our budget to around $125 per week. [Read more…]
Nicholas’ birthday is in three weeks and I have ZERO ideas. But as I was thinking about birthday parties for boys, I remembered that I had never posted these photos from a friend’s party all the way back in 2012!
Our friends, Tim and Nicole, threw this party for their son and at the time I asked her if I could blog about it, but I must have gotten distracted and just forgot. Since then, their whole family has relocated to Papua New Guinea, where they are serving as missionaries. Nicole now writes a blog about their adventures over there.
This was seriously one of the cutest parties.
We were greeted at the door by the Man in the Yellow hat.
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Something amazing happened last year. My professional dream came true and I became an author. A legitimate, real-life author who actually started making money for sitting in front of my computer, writing words and turning them into books.
That meant that I also needed to find more time in the day to sit in front of my computer and write words. I also founded the BlogU Conference, which is going to be an AMAZING event this summer, and is taking a lot of my energy right now to plan.
If I was single or if my children were all in school full-time, maybe that would be easy. But right now I have three small kids and only one of them is in full-day school.
The thing about writing is that the income isn’t consistent enough for me to hire full-time childcare because I might not always need it, and, besides, I like being able to be home with my kids during the day. I also like my career and it is really hard some days to balance the mom job and the professional job.
Here are the Top 5 things that I have found that make my life as a work at home mom a little bit easier every day. I think they apply to all moms, though, regardless of whether you have a paying job (we all know that being a mom is a JOB in and of itself) or you work in a traditional office setting.
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