As a busy Mom, I’m always looking for things that will help my kids but are quick, easy and fun. Education.com is one of my favorite sites as they have so many tools to help our kids learn, but do so in a fun way! I’m that Mom that makes my kids do a little learning work each day, even during long breaks and summer. Because of that though, when the school year starts, my kids normally test ahead of their grade level!!! They also love learning and seeing their own progress get better and better! Here is a great worksheet to try, provided by the awesome team at Education.com! Enjoy!!

Free Worksheet For Kids!

Word tracers are a great way for kids to practice their letter formation and word recognition skills. This one from Education.com includes number words, so it gives parents an opportunity to also work on counting. For even more educational resources that your kids will love, check out Education.com.

Numbers Word Tracer Sheet

Answer Sheet

The New Year is HERE, and with that, New Years Resolutions!! For many small business owners, this is a time to evaluate how your business did over the past 12 months, and what your plans are for the coming 12 months. In order for your business to be successful and thrive, set goals for yourself! Start out small, but make sure you are growing your business every month. Whether it’s by adding 3 new customers, or by adding a new business partner, you need to grow monthly and stay consistent!

New Year Goals

If you are struggling to grow and find your business going down hill each month, put a stop to it!! Take stock of what you did that works, and what didn’t work. Stop relying on social media to build your business, and get out in your community!! Pass our flyers, leave business cards around, and offer samples! If you aren’t talking about your business, then its not growing!

You can also search out craft fairs in your area, most have them in the Spring and these are a GREAT way to get your product/business out there to a new market. Be creative with these, offer free samples, prizes and incentives. You can find some great ideas for events on Pinterest. Make sure to get get people to sign up for your newsletter, this way you have their contact information even after the event is over.

And if you don’t have a newsletter, start one NOW. This is a great way to let your current and past customers know about new deals, plus ways to offer them incentives if they refer friends or host a party. Keep in touch and show them you appreciate their business. A happy customer stays around and refers their friends to shop with you too!

Remember in order to be successful, you have to put in the work! Some people can get by with just a few hours a week, but most of us require a few hours each day of work! Especially if you just started a new business, it takes people 7 times being exposed to a product to be ready to buy!

Here are Five Tips To Help Your Business Be Successful
1) Always be the hardest worker in the room! I never ask others to do thing I personally won’t do and because of that, I lead by example.
2) Be consistent. Nothing is worse than having business partners that stop, start, stop, start over and over again! Be known as someone who is always consistent.
3) Have an accountability partner. It’s always great to have someone you can share ideas with, and who will call you out if you aren’t doing your work.
4) Plug In To Training’s! A lot of time the things you struggle with, someone else has been there and overcome it! If you plugin, you can learn.
5) Drop the excuses! Everyone can find an excuse why things won’t work. Don’t even bother with them. Make this the year you succeed, no matter what!

Do you have some tips for being successful this year? Feel free to share them with me!!!

As the Holiday season approaches, our goal at Work from Home Mom’s, is to educate everyone on what a difference can be made when you shop more from Small Business Owners!  We can help you accomplish that with the Christmas Catalog!

Christmas Catalog

Did you know that over 17 MILLION Americans work in direct sales businesses???? That’s a lot of people!!! We as Americans spend an average of $603 BILLION during the Holiday Season. Now imagine if that money was going toward the average, normal family instead of a CEO buying his 5^th vacation home!

That money could be helping a family afford presents for their kids!  54% of the Holiday Buying is done online anyway, so do it through a small business owner! Use our Christmas Shopping Catalog to help you with your shopping and find a great gift for everyone on your list!!!

I encourage everyone to buy from at least one small business owner this Holiday Season, and ask your friends and family do the same!! To make it easier for you to find them, here is a great list of some of the amazing products you can get!!! Feel free to share this amazing Catalog with everyone you know! The more people who buy from small business owners, the more money goes back into our economy. A win for everyone this Holiday Season and easy to do with our Christmas Shopping Catalog!

Christmas Catalog 2018

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Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, things just don’t go according to plan. That’s been my life for 2018 ha!! I had so many great plans of things I wanted to accomplish, goals I set, programs I would create…..and none happened! Now September is around the corner and things are finally slowing down. For many people, they would just write off the rest of the year and prefer to start fresh, but for me, I think every single day is a fresh start!! Instead of dwelling on what doesn’t go right, I like to look at what I can change to make things better! Sometimes you need to have help in that department, this was a lesson I learned with the chaos that has been 2018.

To start the year off with a bang, my husband got accepted into Nurse Practitioner school at one of the best schools in the US. That is great news, but we hadn’t expected him to get in so quickly as he had just applied. That was a bit scary for me as it meant he would be gone Monday-Friday all day the school is an hour away….more if you hit Atlanta’s lovely traffic. The plan was he would work part time on the weekends in order to keep our insurance. One positive in all that was thanks to my job, he didn’t need to work full time nor worry about child care as my schedule is very flexible but provides a full time income! Right as we were getting use to this idea of how things would change BIG time, he lost his job!! It was a horrible few weeks, but again, a blessing was my job and the income covered us while he searched for the perfect new job. That took a bit longer than expected as he wanted to make sure where ever he worked, they would be ok with his school schedule as it changes constantly. He finally found the perfect job…..at the hospital across from his school!! They would allow him to come in whenever he got off from class. This allowed him not to have to work on the weekends. For the first time in over 8 years, he now has the weekends off for family time! See, when you look hard enough, you can find something to be thankful for haha!

The new schedule was hard though. His first few weeks he left early in the morning and didn’t get back til bedtime thanks to the joys of traffic. Once he got on his normal schedule, he was home in the morning but not back til midnight! Of course as soon as we adjusted to that, he started school so there went seeing him at all! I don’t know about you, but I like having things stay the same and 4 different schedules in the span of 2 months was HARD! Luckily the kids got out of school a few weeks later so I wasn’t have to deal with the joys of dinner, homework, bath and bed all by myself anymore. Summer did present a new challenge though as keeping all 3 kids busy and happy wore me down and my issues with my autoimmune diseases got worse. Needless to say, Mom’s don’t get sick days though so summer was long……very very long. And the health issues, that’s a whole other story in itself lol. Autoimmune diseases do so much damage and for most people, once you get one, multiple others follow. The hunt right now is for what else is going wrong and how to stop it before more damage is done. A few of my organs are suffering right now so hopefully its a quick find!

School just started back so now I’m hoping things will slow down a bit and I can adjust to this new schedule! I ended up needing a minor procedure though this month and that pretty much knocked me down for 2 weeks. I woke up and noticed August was almost over HA! I always have the best luck so a Monday check up ended up keeping me at the doctor for HOURS for more tests. Luckily the very scary one (another lump) came back fine!! Celebrate all the good stuff is an important lesson I have learned the past few months!

Parenting is tough and this year has taught me all you single parents out there, y’all are superheros! I have to do dinner and homework 5 nights a week, but some of you do it 7! I tip my hat to you! Add in major health problems and honestly my Doctor doesn’t even know how I manage it all. I saw a good quote the other day though that said “Someone said to me: “I don’t know how you do it all”….I replied “I wasn’t given a choice” and that describes how I manage! I wasn’t given a choice with these health issues, but how I react to them, now that is my choice. Every day I wake up and I fight. I try every holistic approach out there, I do research over and over, and I’m learning to rest now too. Some days are very hard, and others are wonderful. My biggest lesson from this journey is treasure those wonderful days and even on the hard ones, smile! It can be hard but your smile can help someone else going thru a rough time to stay encouraged.

Well, that has been what has been going on in my life! I would love to hear tips on managing things without your spouse, especially dinner and homework ha! I hope to be a lot more active on the blog now that things are slowing down…..keyword there is hopeful

Stay blessed!