The subject of work-life balance has come up a lot lately in conversations that I have had with my friends and fellow bloggers. It seems that we are all working toward the same goal – creating an environment where we have a healthy work-life balance.

Whether we are entrepreneurs by choice, or simply accident, our family is our number one priority. But, that doesn’t seem to stress us out any less when we have work deadlines come due that cause us to stay up until crazy hours in the night. After all, we want to ensure that we are also providing for that family as well! [Read more...]

When our daughter was born, I was still working and was beside myself on what to do about childcare. Since we were fairly new to the area, and hadn’t been able to get on a waiting list, I felt very uneasy about simply calling around to places to see if they had an opening. Since I didn’t know any moms in the area to ask, I turned to the Internet to see if I could read reviews about different providers and research them online. Much to my dismay, in our area not many childcare providers were online, so I felt like I was back to square one.

Eventually, things worked out for our family that I was able to find someone for a brief amount of time and then was able to quit working and stay at home, however many parents don’t have that option. I wish I would have known about Mom Trusted so that I could connect with moms that would be able to point me in the right direction. [Read more...]

How often do you and your family visit your local park?

We try to visit many of the local parks surrounding us to let our daughter get rid of all of that extra energy and show the parks our support.  [Read more...]

When you have children, sometimes living far away from your family can be rough. You go weeks without speaking to one another and it is sad when you do get together and your kids don’t remember who people are because they aren’t used to seeing them.

Thank goodness for Skype! [Read more...]

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