Archive for July 15th, 2008

MSNBC:
“I have quit feeling guilty that I’m a mom first.”
I recently read this line in Working Mother magazine while I was sitting in the pediatrician’s office waiting to have my son’s tonsils checked. Ah, guilt — every working mom has it at one point or another. How do you quit it?
I had to cancel an [...]

Orleans Star / Weekly Journal:
Two businesses helmed by east-end mothers are in the running for the nation-wide SavvyMom.ca’s Mom Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a readers’ choice contest designed to find Canada’s best mom-slash-business guru.
Online clothing boutiques Daisy Blue – run by sisters and east-end residents Kelli Catana and Ronda MacKinnon – and Apples’n’Oranges – [...]

eWorldWire:
For naturopathic doctor Pamela Frank, all of the following are in a day’s work:
a) Being a single mom of a two-year-old
b) Being an entrepreneur and running a small business
c) Being a doctor
d) Being a triathlete
As if single motherhood, being a business owner and naturopath weren’t already enough, Frank has incorporated training for a triathlon into [...]

Grand Haven Tribune:
For business owner Tiffany Balk, Blueberry Haven truly is the gift that keeps on giving.
What started out as an idea for giving gifts to relatives turned into a family business of blueberry products across the state and a reminder of what West Michigan has to offer.
Balk, along with her husband and three sons, [...]

Moms within the cloth diapering community already know of the wet bag. Outside of that group there are a whole bunch of women who do not know what they are missing out on. Jamie Bird, the owner of Wet Happened? and Mini Me Babygear, has taken the traditional wet bag and renovated it. [...]