Posts Tagged ‘stay at home mom’

Wonderful Wednesday: 5 Ways to be a More Productive Stay at Home Mom

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 by by ommilay


Let’s face it- being a stay at home mom IS work- but withoutthe regulated hours or regular pay of a regular 40 hour work week, leaves YOU,the mom, in charge setting your own work, goals, etc.

Here are 5 tips on how to be more successful as a stay at home mom

1- When possible, wake up before the rest of your family(namely children) shower, dress, and get ready for the day. This will automatically set your mind in go-mode, preventing you from being sluggish and unproductive throughoutthe first hours of the day.

2- Any physical exercise, even just 15 minutes a day, willrelease extra endorphins, giving you some extra energy. Additionally, a little cardio can help you work out anger/frustration (which can’t help but give you morepatience with your children).

3- Each night, before going to sleep, jot down a to-do listfor the next day. Even if you aren’t able to accomplish everything on yourlist, you will find that simply having them written down will help you (more…)

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Going from looking blah to looking good

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 by by pattyandthemoos

This weekend I bought myself a new curling iron to add to my collection of hair styling accessories I rarely use. I have a couple of hair dryers and a couple of flat irons but I don’t have a regular curling iron. I have been thinking about getting one since I am tired of my hair looking terrible all the time. I am trying to grow it back out a little and it is just not looking so hot these days.

Since I rarely ever leave the house, it is just hard to get motivated to fix up. I have makeup and hair styling tools but I usually look like I just got out of bed. I probably shouldn’t admit that but I am.

I told Kelly that I wanted to start getting up in the morning, taking a shower, and fixing up before I start my day… like other people do. But, did I do that today? Nope. As I am typing up this post I am sitting in my office wearing one of Kelly’s sweatshirts, a pair of shorts, no shoes or socks, and unbrushed hair. Yeh, I have admitted to not brushing my hair way too many times on my blog.

I am trying to transition from being the frumpy dumpy housewife to (more…)

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My biggest problem with being a SAHM

Monday, May 24th, 2010 by by Valerie

First of all, I love almost everything about being a stay at home mom. I love that I get to watch my boys grow and learn daily. I love that, when it’s nice, I can get things done quickly and then spend the day outside, usually at the playground. There are just so many positive aspects that I adore and wouldn’t change for anything in the world.

However, I have one huge problem. I HATE HATE HATE not making any money! I feel so guilty for buying anything that isn’t a necessity and try to avoid it, but I really stink at that. What am I buying, you ask? I get bored with cooking or just don’t feel like doing it, so I want to run out and take the boys somewhere quick or just different. I want a good coffee or soda or to take them out for ice cream, but because I am not making the money, I feel so guilty. (Yes, I still do it, because I have no willpower.) For instance, I went to pick up Troy from preschool and wanted to take him and Will out for lunch because for most of the year, my mom or a close family friend would pick him up and take him out to eat before bringing him home. The problem: I had no cash. I didn’t want to use a credit card, but I didn’t want to dip into the cash stash we have, because it wasn’t a good reason. It was driving me nuts! I was like, “I JUST NEED $15!!!!!!”

Now, before anyone beats me up about admitting this, I know I work my tail off as a stay at home mom. I cook, clean, do laundry, run errands, take care of the lawn (somewhat), and most importantly take care of our boys. I know that I deserve the little extras here and there, but I can’t justify spending the money easily when I am not making it. AAUUGGHHHH!

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Just When Things Are Looking Up

Thursday, April 29th, 2010 by by JM Guest Blogger

Whenever we think we have gotten ourselves back on our feet financially, it hits us. The truck is misfiring making for a bumpy ride and it needs to be inspected. Our car was stolen… yep. It was a lease and so therefor we get no money for it and no car to replace it; its just gone.

So now I am left at home, with the kids, without a car. Lucky for us we live down the street from the park and with the weather being nicer, I can at least walk there or something. But now I get to worry about saving up for a cheap commuter car for Nate to take to and from work. I will need the truck to take the girls to doc appointments and be able to take Dakota to pre-school come September.

Why does it always happen this way? I am feeling majorly depressed. Never in my life did I (more…)

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Hi Ho, Hi Ho……

Friday, February 5th, 2010 by by JM Guest Blogger

It’s off to work I go!

It has been nearly 15 months since I said goodbye to my job and I thought it would be rather traumatic for me to go back to work – expected there to be tears in my eyes as I rode the subway into downtown Toronto…..but there were none.  This week was my first week back at work and even though it was hard to say good-bye to my rowdy beautiful children, I was able to do so without shedding any tears and I actually enjoyed myself back at the ole job once again.  It was really helpful that my first shift back was an “orientation” shift and I was working with my closest co-worker and truthfully it looks like we’ve got a fantastic group of kids in the treatment center.

I know the next couple of weeks are going to be an adjustment as I (more…)

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Stay at home mom lala land

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 by by pattyandthemoos

So today when I was taking a shower I started thinking about stay at home mom hygiene.  Oh no, I am not talking about this subject.  But, I am.  Sorry, get over it.  So as I was taking my shower for the first time in three days (I am almost embarrassed to admit this but I decided to post about it anyway), I was thinking about how different my life is as a stay at home mom.  When I had a job, I would never think of wearing the same clothes for three or four days in a row, but I find myself doing this all the time now.  It is not just because I am lazy – well it is because I am lazy – but not really that I am too lazy to change clothes.  I can handle that really.  I don’t like washing laundry, especially when something is not really dirty, so I just continue wearing my clothes until they look or smell bad.

My hair has not been brushed in three days.  I did take a shower today, but I still haven’t brushed my hair.  I have all this makeup that I never wear.  And, you know my blog bio pic, I never look like that!  It took me an hour and a half to get my hair to look like that, seriously.  I don’t know how all you beautiful moms do it.  I literally washed and blow dried my hair three different times when I took that picture because every time I would dry it, it would look stupid.  My hair looks better when I don’t fix it than when I do.  My fixing is like that old 70s painting show where the guy would have this great painting and then start messing with it and make it look all stupid.  My talent is definitely not in hair styling!

So anyway, I was thinking today about how we have this idealistic view of how life will be if we could just be home full time (or if the kids were in school, or if… you get the point).  I remember when I worked full time that I had this lovely picture in my head of myself as this fab mom that looked great all the time, with a sparkling clean house, well behaved kids, time to exercise, etc., etc. – if only I could be a stay at home mom.  That was my hold up.  I had to go to work at this stinky old job.  If I weren’t doing that, well then I would just be perfect.  I would have all the time in the world to be that super mom I envisioned in my head since I had nothing else taking up my time.  WRONG!

It doesn’t actually work that way.  Whatever it is that is holding you back (more…)

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