A couple of weeks ago, Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger asked me about my blog’s tipping point. I actually had to think about it for several days, and still wasn’t able to give him a solid answer until I finally sat down to type it up. The reason it was so hard to me to [...]

I don’t know if it’s the warm weather, the fact we finally went boating this last weekend, or if I’m just plain tired, but I am having *the* hardest time getting myself moving today. If last Monday hadn’t been Memorial Day, I might have just skipped today. I don’t want to think about empire-building. I [...]

It hardly feels real to say it, but summer is right around the corner. My kids have 3 weeks of school left… and then… my silent work at home haven will transform into a chaotic messy disaster for three months straight. I both look forward to and dread summer. I love getting time with the [...]

I’ve been surprisingly productive today despite the fact that all of my kids are home sick today. Well, let’s say that ’surprisingly productive’ is a relative term if you take into consideration that my furnace gave out this morning, I spilled coffee all over my bedroom floor, and I’m checking my daughter’s forehead for a [...]

I’m supposed to be well rested and revived on Mondays. But in preparation of launching with a new name *tomorrow* (we hope!), I worked over 25 hours this last weekend. My kids are so getting tons of mommy time when this is over!
And in honor of our last day as eMoms at Home, I thought [...]

I believe that the White Witch has finally been vanquished here in Chicagoland, which has had its snowiest winter since the infamous blizzard of 1979. I was seriously beginning to feel like we were stuck in Narnia :: always winter, never Christmas.
Yet behold, the signs of life:

Repeat after me:
I will not play hooky until my [...]

Spring Break. Entrepreneurship. Neither are for the faint of heart.
This week is my crunch week. Next week, I guarantee you my house will look like this.  I am praying, *praying*, that we can relaunch next week with our new name. Of which yes, since you asked, has been chosen & obtained, and will remain a [...]