The Young Mommy Life

I asked some moms on the YML Facebook page if they had questions about being their own boss. They did, and I answered some of them below. Yoni asks: Why are some so opposed to being self-employed?  Because it’s scary. When you’re working for someone else, you don’t realize how incredible it is that money [...]

The phrase I hear most often from people who know me is “I don’t know how you do it.” The “it” is the looooong list of things on my daily to-do list. Every day, I’m home with two kids, ages 5 and 3, trying my best to take over where their teachers left off. I’m [...]

Read part one and part two first if you missed them.  Once I left my office on the day I got laid off, I sat in my car for a minute, dazed, confused and hurting. This was my first job out of college and I thought I was pretty good at it. To be laid [...]

Let me explain a little bit about the title. When I got laid off in November 2010, I was given a severance package (enough for maybe two months of mortgage payments) and I would receive regular paychecks until the end of December. So really, we had about two months until we’d have to start hitting [...]

My buddy Fran asked me how in the heck did I go from being laid off, to making roughly $40K as a work-at-home mom one year later. And I didn’t have an answer for her at that time, because honestly, I didn’t know how it happened. 2011 is a bit of a blur for me, [...]