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I am 41 years old, and I am a WAHM with two teenagers, a grade-schooler, and a toddler. I juggle cooking, writing, PTA, diapers and design on a daily basis. I work for a pittance and I never get a day off. Crazy? Yes! Rewarding? Absolutely! Challenging? All the time. Would I trade it for anything in the world? No thanks...
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What Mompreneur Really Means

According to Wisegeek, http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-mompreneur.htm , mompreneur is a newly coined term for women who establish businesses at home while also acting as the full time parent of their children. The mompreneur movement is one steadily growing in the US as mothers try to find ways to make money, express their creativity or business acumen, and also to parent their children.
This is my secretary, sporting the latest fashion... Panty Hats.
Ok, so cut the crap... What mompreneur really means is that you get up at the butt-crack of dawn, wake up disgruntled, sleep deprived children, and hopefully get them off to school with their teeth brushed and hair combed, wearing clean clothes. You have your toddler hanging off your boob while you try to type an article, all the while avoiding flailing feet that are trying to drum on your keyboard. When home, your teenager comes in the office (which happens to be a corner of the laundy room) every five minutes because you just have to see this Slipknot video on YouTube. You check your email. You discover your article has been rejected because you used the word boob in an article about breastfeeding. You see another article has been approved, and rejoice at the $1.99 that has been deposited into your PayPal account! WooHoo, get that breastfeeding one approved and you may have enough money for a frappachino from Starbuck's. You express your creativity by venting about your family on your blog, and practice your business acumen by trying to keep your grocery budget down to under $500 a month for a family of five, including diapers! You parent your children by turning on Yo Gabba Gabba for the toddler, and keeping a 4-pack of Monsters in the fridge to help the teenager stay awake and get his homework done. Your true business hours are between Top Chef and 3 am in the morning, which is when you have the least amount of distractions. Crazy? Yes! Rewarding? Absoulutely! Challenging? All the time. Would I trade it for anything in the world? No thanks... I have worked for someone else since I was 14 years old, and I love being my own boss, being able to do PTA (yea, they actually let me do that.. who knew?), be home when the kids are home from school, and listen to whatever music I want while I work!

Monday, Monday... Off to a late start...

Monday, September 14, 2009

My usual routine is to get up at 7:15, get my son ready for school, make some coffee and then jump into work.  Thank heavens for my daughter, who picks him up each morning and takes him to school on her way to work.  It makes it so much easier on me, and I don't have to drag the baby out.... She's really starting to make up for the 19 hours of labor it took to get her here!

This morning however, I felt like crapola.  so I got my son up, gave him his clothes and his instructions, and went back to bed.  Until 10:15!  Ugh!  So I will be racing today trying to catch up.  Luckily, when I checked my email, my football program client has not emailed me the materials I need, so that makes me feel a little bit better.

Well, I have my Chai Tea ready, I ate my Cocoa Crispies, so now it is time to go forth and conquer!

One last thought... If you have teens, in particular a teen who you recently congratulated on a well written paper... Ban them from your blogs!  Last night my son was critiquing my spelling, my grammar, suggesting I use more similies and use alternate graphics...
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