Archive for July 22nd, 2008

SFGate:
Heather Armstrong’s blog got her fired. Six years later, it pays her family’s mortgage.
Armstrong, a 33-year-old Salt Lake City mother, is one of thousands of “mommybloggers” who are finding there is money to be made in writing about the traditionally uncompensated work of child rearing.

Armstrong, who has chronicled her life on Dooce.com since 2001 - [...]

Desert Dispatch:
When the commissary at Fort Irwin started pushing people to go green and use reusable grocery bags, Genevieve Campbell came up with an idea.

This Fort Irwin mother of two started making custom bags as an alternative to the plain cloth ones sold by the commissary. She opened a store, SweetGroceryBags, online last [...]

Sun.Star Baguio:
For those women who need to earn money for sheer survival, often the question of availability of time is irrelevant. Women too from poor families invariably try to find some work or the other.

In these cases, it is seen that household enterprises and micro-enterprise becomes an attractive option, if opportunity is available. The women [...]

As mothers, many of us forget to take time for ourselves. Whether it is to practice a little yoga, or make sure to eat well, sometimes we end up putting ourselves last and that can really wear us down.
I recently found out about Heather Cabot through Style Cafe Moms Featured WAHM and thought she [...]