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Managing Life as a Work-at-Home Mom: How to Juggle It All, Part 2

January 16, 2012

Did you miss the first two posts in this series? Find them here and here. 
Let's continue on with the practical, shall we?
Making Work More Productive
Part of the balancing act is learning to work smarter, not harder. This includes developing the ability to see what doesn't need to be done, and not just learning to do [...]

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Managing Life as a Work-at-Home Mom: How to Juggle It All, Part 1

January 9, 2012

As I shared last week, I think that working-at-home is an amazing and viable opportunity for many women who wish to (or need to) work but still want to remain at home with their children.
Today, I want to get really practical and start sharing some of the things you can do to really make it [...]

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Managing Life as a Work-at-Home Mom

January 5, 2012

As someone who has a firm conviction that being home with my children and keeping my home is the best thing that I could possibly do in this season of life, I never really considered any sort of career or business work once that first sweet baby arrived.
Becoming a work-at-home mom was not part of [...]

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Seven Strategies for Home Schooling Moms

September 27, 2011

Written by Natalie Klejwa, Guest Writer
When my oldest child was three years old, I began one of the most exciting and stretching challenges of my life.  I started home schooling.  Fifteen years later, I am teaching children in the 9th, 6th, 4th, 2nd, and 1st grades along with two toddlers.  And that 3 year old?  [...]

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I Wasn’t Trained to Be a Mom (But I Can Still Love It)

June 23, 2011

Sometimes I end up rummaging through past posts for one reason or another, and a post that I have written (and forgotten about) will jump out at me and I am freshly inspired by whatever it was that spurred me on to write the post in the first place.
The quote below is from just such [...]

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At Raising Homemakers: Have You Had a Date With Your Daughter Lately?

June 22, 2011

Today you can find my debut post up over at Raising Homemakers. Here's an excerpt from it:
We said good-bye to Daddy and her siblings, made a quick stop for yummy drinks, and then pulled up to the movie theater. Movies aren’t generally something that we go out to see, especially with the offerings in the [...]

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Encouragement for Mamas of Strong Willed Children

June 7, 2011

By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
The other morning I was snuggling with my three year old daughter on the couch right after she had woken up.  I love those times of the morning, where my kids are bleary eyed and will actually sit with me for extended minutes while I kiss their heads, [...]

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Frugal and Homemade Mother’s Day Gifts

May 2, 2011

Written by Stacy Karen, Contributing Writer
Mothers work hard for many, many years. Because of how hard our mothers work, it is natural to want to break the budget and spend a small fortune, just to show we care.
Thankfully, most mama’s don’t want that. In fact, a simple gift that expresses your love and gratitude, is [...]

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Getting Back Into a Routine When You’ve Gotten Off Track

February 24, 2011

Here's how it usually happens: We go through a busy or hard season of life and I get off track of my usual routines, become disorganized, and things feel generally chaotic. So, I spend time putting together an elaborate routine, making all these amazing plans of how I will be more on the ball, more [...]

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Staying Motivated to Exercise

February 3, 2011

Written by Stacey K, Contributing Writer
Once the initial excitement of New Year's goals has passed, the reality of sticking with an exercise plan can become difficult.
As keepers of the home, we have much to do every day. It is easy to knock exercise off the list in order to get something else accomplished. This might [...]

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