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6 Ways to Make Working From Home Easier

6 Ways to Make Working From Home Easier

It’s 1pm. My 3-year-old is down for her nap, although I can still hear her playing. The house is semi picked up, the dog is in his cage so he won’t eat a dozen tissues while I’m not watching, and …

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Choosing an In-Home Sitter Over a Preschool

Choosing an In-Home Sitter Over a Preschool

A few weeks into working from home as a freelance writer, I began to see that the number of hours I was working from home weren't realistic with

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A WAHM’s Reaction to Marissa Mayer’s Decisions

Yahoo's youngest CEO and new mom, Marissa Mayer decided last week to discontinue all remote positions and eliminate flex time for employees.  Not only will all remote positions

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Working With Style {WAHM Style Resolution}

I literally became a mom overnight. Most women do, right? One day you’re pregnant, the next day you’ve got a newborn in your arms. That’s not exactly how

The Grass is Always Greener

The Grass is Always Greener. And Browner.

I have to admit, I always get the same awestruck response when I tell people I make money blogging. They can't seem to wrap their head around how

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Working With Style {Workout Clothes Edition}

The truth is, I have no style.  Especially since I started my new full-time online gig, I barely wear anything but workout clothes.  However, I do like nice

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To shower or not to shower…

At the beginning of the year, I started a Facebook group for like-minded friends who want to lose weight, exercise more, and be healthier in 2013.  It's nice

Pregnancy and the Working Mom

Pregnancy and the Working Mom

I'm 8 weeks and 4 days pregnant. I'm also a mom to a 3 year old and work from home as a writer. I'm at that point where I

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Finding a Sitter While Working From Home

Our adored sitter is leaving next month to head back home. The news wasn't a shock, with both of us military wives it was bound to happen at

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Transitioning Back to Full-Time

I'm heading back into the full-time working world - mostly while wearing yoga pants.  On Monday, I accepted a full-time Political Science instructor position for one of the

Learning to Say No

Learning to Say a Two Letter Word

Oh, the word that causes me to cringe, to rethink my time management, to wait with baited breath for the other person to get upset. That little two

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Money and the WAHM

Working from home has a million trade-offs.  I knew this from the beginning.  I'm giving up certain aspects of a career -- everything from eating lunch with colleagues

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Finding My Balance

As a mom who works from home in social media, my days aren't 8-5. They don't have a lunch break, I don't get to shut the door to

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How Working From Home as a Blogger Happened

I am often asked how I started working from home as a writer, because many of us that blog have that goal in mind. The dream of doing

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The Husband Factor

A recent post by Mike and Heather Spohr dealing with working from home at Huffington Post made me a chuckle.  I've followed their main blog, "The Spohrs are Multiplying"  for

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On Being a WAHM.

I've been blogging at Hormonal Imbalances for almost 3 years. It started as an outlet for all the extra time I had while my 2 month old napped. It's

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WAHM Sick Days

I read posts like this one that talk about taking a sick day and enjoying movies on the couch and time to themselves and my normally brown eyes

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Being a WAHM is like Being a Double Agent

Throughout my pregnancy and for the first 5 months of my daughter's life I was finishing my master's degree and working part-time at the university. Looking back now,

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Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Recently, I found myself having a conversation with an acquaintance and they remarked, "You're so lucky you're able to stay home." My haunches rose immediately and I found myself

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Q & A With {Kinda} Living The Dream

A couple weeks ago I had a chance to meet Lindsy in person as she took photographs of me for some head shots where she took this amazing

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