The last month has been a stressful one, but never did I think that it would come to this level of stress! Being a working, single mother comes with it’s own set of challenges – being both mom and dad to the children, balancing work with family life, being the sole provider to cover the [...]
Pick yourself up. Brush yourself off. And move forward onto bigger and better things.
Mar
12
Filed Under: Family/Friends, Finances/Money, Kids/Motherhood, Working Moms Against Guilt
Holiday Helpers: Online Shopping
Nov
18
Filed Under: Finances/Money, Holidays, Kids/Motherhood, Working Moms Against Guilt
I admit. I have always been a last minute holiday shopper. Last year, on Dec. 12, I broke my ankle. Immediately, my first worry (past getting home and my leg up) was “how in the world will I buy Christmas”. I hadn’t even begun shopping and here I was bed-ridden for at least 6 weeks. [...]
A New Part-time Gig
Awhile back I started looking for additional work since my husband’s pay had been cut by 40 percent. I did what most job hunters do: I went searching on career sites like Monster.com and Careerbuilders.com. Low and behold, what came up? Nothing. Nada. Nil. Zip. You get the point. This isn’t much surprise since so [...]
Saving for a Rainy Day I Hope Never Comes
This week I called my daughter’s pediatrician to schedule her pre-kindergarten vaccinations. “But she doesn’t start kindergarten until the fall,” the nurse said. “You can wait until summer if you’d like. ” “I’d rather not wait,” I told her. “I have health insurance now.” I’m sad and more than a little angry that I have [...]
Channeling June Cleaver
A segment on Monday’s Today show caught my attention. It was about how moms are cutting back to save money. Candace Corlett, president of WSL Strategic Retail, talked about a study her firm conducted on how America shops in crisis. What did they find? Moms are cutting back on eating out, salon services, and home [...]
Ticket to Ride
This morning I was running an errand before work, and I got pulled over. OFFICIALLY, the $105 ticket is for a “no turn on red” violation–which I certainly did not do. Basically, I snuck through a really stale yellow in an attempt to clear an intersection after pulling away from a street-side parking space that [...]
Feeling the Crunch
I know the last thing you probably want to talk about is the state of the economy. But anymore it’s getting hard to ignore. While some families in this country have been turning a blind eye or just riding out the storm, others have been severely affected, from losing their jobs or going into foreclosure [...]
