Archive for May 30th, 2008

Many mom-owned businesses exist because the woman was looking to work from home and care for family. The Blue Top Hat is different. This is a business run by a mother and her daughter.
Their business idea came about when they were trying to figure out a gift to give one of their best [...]

Spokane Journal of Business:
Sarah Bishop named her business, Moxie Nannies Inc., after the type of person she thinks makes a good nanny: energetic, determined, and knowledgeable.
Experienced as both a nanny and a parent, Bishop says she knows how hard it is for parents to find a person who’s qualified to come into their home and [...]

syracuse.com:
Some warm, rainy night when you’re driving along Route 321 in Camillus you might notice a woman and her young children with flashlights and headlamps on, walking the grounds at the Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery.
Don’t worry, they’ve got permission from hatchery officials.
It’s Sara Holden and her kids looking for night crawlers.
The Holdens live right [...]

Alaska Star:
Traffic into the store is steady, and the mood is happy, most of the time. Things can change at the whim of the real boss, Cora, the 22-month-old daughter of Alexis Kallen.
Kallen brings Cora to work with her most days and juggles business and mommy-hood as best she can.
Cora is potty training, so everything [...]

The Morning News:
Ashley Leis is proof that necessity is the mother of invention.
The former mortgage lender invested about $50,000 to open an hourly drop-off daycare service out of frustration.
She decided to be a stay-at-home mom when she had her daughter four years ago but soon found that at-home life was a tough row to hoe.
“(Staying [...]