As I continue on with my on-line adventures I have this haunting voice in my head that keeps telling me, be practical and just go get a job. I’m am really starting to worry about our finances and getting tired of the day to day struggles just to makes ends meat. As a stay-at-home mom I dedicate a lot of time to budgeting, frugal shopping and any other resource I can tap into, just to buy some time with my 2 youngest children. Putting Jackson and Madison in daycare is not an option and not because I’m opposed to day care but because their needs are far greater than what I would expect a center or in-home caregiver to provide. For years I worked a night job, opposite of my husbands schedule but as the older kids started all day school, I never got to see them. I really missed them and if you saw the pictures of my oldest daughter with the “Alice Cooper” eye liner, she missed me too. My husband tried to maintain the kids, homework and the house but it was more than he could handle. Kourtnee, my oldest ended up being the 2nd mom to Madison and Jacob’s was falling behind in class reading and math levels. Even thought we needed the money, my kids needed me more.

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For the last year and a half I have been home. I have tried different methods for making money from selling on e-bay to my current endeavors with on-line blogging. I hated e-bay, but I truly love working on-line. I love researching for articles and helping people though my own trial and error. I could honestly spend 24 hrs. a day blogging and interacting with the on-line community. But in as much as I love it, there is no guarantee that money will be made, that the kind of success you read about will be achieved or that I have educated myself enough to make any of this work. No guarantees! When you wake up each day and go to work, the paycheck is a guarantee (usually) and stability is also a guarantee with a job. I live each day of faith and hope and pray each night for success to come. To the other mom’s out there I understand and respect the struggles you face. I wish you the best of luck and hope that all your endeavors become successful!
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My daughter is constantly asking me about this or that and as she gets older, it gets harder to answer her question. So I always refer her to the Internet. If you look at her on-line searches of course my space and y-tube is on the top of the list but then comes ask.com and wiki as she is always starving for statics. So the other day she was asking me about something, I can’t remember what it was but I told her to look online as I didn’t have the answer. As she was researching her question she ran across this list of thousands of interesting facts and precedes to start reading them off to me, one by one. I of course was busy fixing dinner and was only half heartily listening to her. After about fifty facts that didn’t relate to anything I was currently focusing on (not burning the pork chops) I told her to pick her favorite 10 and write them down and I would read them later.

She did just that and a few days later I sat down and read her list. OMG is all I can say. To have the worries and interests of a 14 year old would be so refreshing right now considering the only facts or statistics my life revolves around are bills, budgets and how much I can actually accomplish in a 24 hour period.

Here we go – Kourtnee’s Top Ten Most Interesting Facts:

• There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker cookie zoo
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
• Most lipstick contains fish scales
• The first product to contain a bar-code was Wrigley’s gum
• Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
• Recycling 1 glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours
• More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
• A person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper each day
• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping you up in the morning
• Your sneeze travles out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

So there you have it, these are the things that interest out teenagers. I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing. Thanks for the important facts Kourtnee, you have inspired us all!!

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