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Deuteronomy 13:4
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WORKING
AT HOME WITH KIDS
A couple
of weeks ago I asked for tips on working
at home with small kids around. Thank you
all for your great responses! Here is another
tip that I'd like to share:
My 3 year old son loves
Thomas the tank engine so I got him a Thomas
computer CD. When he sees me on the computer
he automatically switches on his computer
(which is right next to mine) and gets me
to start his "Thomas CD"!! Some
of the games build his skills and he is
able to handle them totally on his own.
Then there are others which my 6 year old
son helps him with if he's at home too.
I have a bunch of other CDs too which they
can use but Thomas is the favorite. The
starfall.com site also keeps them occupied
and learning at the same time.
Priya Williams
http://www.vineyardesigns.com
Do have a tip for
working with small kids around? I'd love
to hear them and I'll share them in next
week's newsletter. Email your tips to me
at jill@cwahm.com.
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Featured
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When Working From
Home Isn't Working Out
by
Denise
Willms |
More and more moms are choosing to either work from home or
start home based businesses, and while they each have their own reasons for
doing so, most have one thing in common: they want to be with their children and
spend more time with their families.
A Christian mom may feel
an even larger responsibility to be with her
children on a daily basis. It’s easier to
teach our children about God’s love for them
when we are with them all day, every day.
But what can a
work-at-home-mom do when working from home
isn’t working out?
Perhaps a home business idea didn’t take off
and a business mom thinks about returning to
her old job to pay off some bills. Maybe a
telecommuting job is ending and another one
isn’t on the horizon. Sometimes the desire
for a larger home, a family vacation, or the
loss of the husband’s income can lead a
work-at-home mom to wonder if it’s time for
her to work outside the home again.
It’s a difficult decision to make,
frequently fraught with feelings of failure,
sadness, and wondering where you went wrong.
A Christian WAHM who prays regularly for her
business’s success may even question why God
didn’t just make things easier for her.
At least, that was how I felt when faced
with this decision two years ago. My husband
had been hospitalized for several months,
his paycheck had been cut back and our
expenses had increased. My revenue from my
new home business simply wasn’t enough to
make up the shortfall.
At first, returning to work seemed my only
option, but after spending many hours in
prayer and discussing options with my
husband and others whom I trusted, I
believed God wanted me to stay home with our
children and trust Him to meet our material
needs.
Rebekkah Kogelschatz of Smart Moms-Smart
Business, LLC, http://www.smartmoms-smartbusiness.com,
recently faced this same decision when her
husband’s health problems increased his time
away from work. For Kogelschatz, though,
returning to work was the right answer. It
has been a difficult decision, but she says,
“You truly have to look at your overall
picture, pray, and have faith that God will
lead you to the right answer.”
For anyone who feels pressured to return to
an outside job, it’s important to remember
that God hasn’t forgotten about you, your
family, or your business. Here are some
steps you can take to find God’s purpose for
this time.
Pray. Are you thinking of returning
to work because of social pressures, or is
it truly God’s idea?
Kogelschatz and her husband both “prayed for
discernment, trying not to see only the
financial aspects of returning to work,
which would definitely improve, but also
looking at how it would affect our children
and our household.”
During my own husband’s illness, the growing
pile of bills seemed to scream that it was
time for me to go back to work. But when I
asked God what He thought, I strongly felt
that He wanted me to stay home and trust
Him, despite how things appeared.
Whatever you decide to do, be sure it’s
God’s plan and not your own.
Trust. If you have sincerely sought
God’s plan for your business, you can trust
that God will protect and provide for you
and your family.
Though not always pleasant, and not always
in the way I wished He would have helped us,
God did provide for my family during my
husband’s illness.
As a teacher looking for a job in late
summer, Kogelschatz expected to find the
bottom of the barrel in teaching positions,
but she believes God prepared the way for
her return. “There was a great resource
position available that I applied for and I
got it,” Kogelschatz says. “It was the
perfect position for the other events that
are happening in my life... God provided the
right position at the right time.”
Work. A return to the outside
workforce does not necessarily mean the end
of your home business. Continue to work on
building your business when you can.
Kogelschatz works many evenings on
developing her websites, posting on her
blogs, and chatting on forums. “When I used
to work 20-30 hours a week on building the
websites, I know have to balance my time
with my family time and do as much as I can
when I get the opportunity.” She plans to
return to her home based internet business
full time and is using this year to build
foundations that will help her earn an
at-home income equivalent to her teaching
salary.
Kogelschatz has some encouraging words for
moms who, like her, return to working
outside the home for a time:
“If you have to go back to work, plan your
time so your family and your home based
business do not suffer, but don't feel like
you have to spend all night and the weekends
working on your home based business. It may
not move at the speed it would if you were
home, but it will move ahead.”
She adds, “I am truly at peace with our
decision, even though I still miss being the
one with my children each day.”
‘For I
know the plans I have for you’ declares the
Lord, ‘Plans to prosper you and not to harm
you, plans to give you hope and a future.’
Jeremiah 29:11
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Denise Willms is co-owner of
WAHM-Articles.com, publisher of WAHM-Articles
Ezine, and a ghostwriter for WAHMs who don’t
like to write. She is author of the free
eBook, Uncovering the Secrets of WAHM
Article Marketing and A 30-Day Prayer Guide
for Work-at-Home-Moms, scheduled for release
in 2007. For more information, please visit
http://www.wahm-articles.com or email
info@denisewillms.com ..
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Oct
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Length: approx. 35 minutes
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Featured Recipe
Quick and
Easy Pot Roast |
6 medium potatoes, diced
3 carrots, sliced
3 stalks of celery, chopped
1 onion, diced
6 cups water
4 chicken bouillon cubes
Parsley flakes
1 small can (5.8 oz) evaporated milk
Put everything into the crockpot except
milk. Cook 8 - 10 hours on low. One hour
before being done, add evaporated milk.
Recipe
Source:
Submitted by:
Alice Green
Bizymoms Cookbook by Diana
Ennen & Kelly Poelker
Virtual Word Publishing, Inc.
http://www.virtualwordpublishing.com
diana@virtualwordpublishing.com
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Kids love candy, but memories last longer.
So this Halloween, offer your child a treat
sack she can use to collect not only sweets,
but also autographs.
MATERIALS:
Plain canvas bag
Permanent markers
Time needed: 30 Minutes or
Less
1. Just give your little angel -- or devil!
-- a plain canvas bag and a few colorful
permanent markers, and she can ask her
fellow trick-or-treaters to sign the bag
with their name and disguise. She can use
this sturdy keepsake every Halloween -- and
the memories will grow sweeter by the year.
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Just Jane
by Nancy Moser
Jane Austen’s
six novels have been read, talked about and
turned into plays, movies, etc. And yet,
while her work is celebrated worldwide, her
life is often thought of as fairly
unremarkable. Austen’s own nephew helped to
promote this view when he published a
biography of her life (30 years after her
death). Nancy Moser’s new novel, Just Jane,
gives readers a glimpse into what Austen’s
life might have truly been like.
Moser paints a colorful picture of Austen
and her family. Born in 1775, Austen lived
in a world where women were second-class
citizens. They could not inherit and enjoyed
very few of the privileges that women today
do. Austen was not able to publish her books
under her name and they were simply credited
as “By a Lady.” Yet, against all odds she
did have her work published. She didn’t live
to see her final two books in print and yet
her novels are still widely read today. Her
writing has even spawned Jane Austen fans
clubs around the world.
This bio-novel of Jane Austen’s life is as
close to her real story as possible. Moser
has done her research and shares about her
findings in a section at the back of the
book. She explains that she used a
combination of historical documents and
writings, as well as letters that Austen
herself penned while alive – mostly in
correspondence to her sister, Cassandra.
Moser’s novel shows a side of Jane Austen
that most fans have never experienced. The
story begins with a listing of when each
Austen child was born – she was the seventh
of eight children – and then begins the
story when she is twenty, shortly after she
has met Tom LeFroy, the love interest that
has been admittedly “Hollywood-ized” in the
movie, Becoming Jane.
Just Jane is a wonderful book for any Austen
fan. It gives a glimpse of her as a real
person – flaws and all.
Moser paints a colorful picture of Austen
and her family. Born in 1775, Austen lived
in a world where women were second-class
citizens. They could not inherit and enjoyed
very few of the privileges that women today
do. Austen was not able to publish her books
under her name and they were simply credited
as “By a Lady.” Yet, against all odds she
did have her work published. She didn’t live
to see her final two books in print and yet
her novels are still widely read today. Her
writing has even spawned Jane Austen fans
clubs around the world.
This bio-novel of Jane Austen’s life is as
close to her real story as possible. Moser
has done her research and shares about her
findings in a section at the back of the
book. She explains that she used a
combination of historical documents and
writings, as well as letters that Austen
herself penned while alive – mostly in
correspondence to her sister, Cassandra.
Moser’s novel shows a side of Jane Austen
that most fans have never experienced. The
story begins with a listing of when each
Austen child was born – she was the seventh
of eight children – and then begins the
story when she is twenty, shortly after she
has met Tom LeFroy, the love interest that
has been admittedly “Hollywood-ized” in the
movie, Becoming Jane.
Just Jane is a wonderful book for any Austen
fan. It gives a glimpse of her as a real
person – flaws and all.
Review
by:
Jill Hart, CWAHM.com
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