Category: Parent

Quarantined Gratefulness Countdown Series: Post 1

Shortly after my birthday in January, news reports of the spread of coronavirus were becoming the subject of top stories.   February started out with a surprise late-night snowfall here in central Texas, which I gladly took advantage of losing a couple of hours of sleep over to enjoy.  Not only was this once-a-decade snowfall in …

Teaching Your Child To Write About Current Events

Capturing current events when they happen has always been big news and is kept for historical documentation. Teaching your child the importance of documenting important current events can help them grow in many ways. With the world in a state of panic and slight uncertain times due to the coronavirus, you can be part of …

Quarantined Gratefulness Countdown Series

I’ve been inspired to do a sort of countdown for our given situation of stay at home orders, and limiting group numbers of people, due to the coronavirus.  I want to create a grateful series because it’s starting to feel as if I’m looking from the outside in on some people’s reactions and emotions during …

Self-Employed Bosses Get Snow Days Too

I missed Groundhog Day, but that’s okay because this Texas lady got her wish of having snow last night! As a self-employed entrepreneur, I can mark my calendar as enjoying a work-milestone, of my first snow day! Even if it happened to be midnight! Self-employed bosses need a snow day, and here’s how my first …

Business Leader Role Models

Twenty minutes on the timer left to go. That’s all the time I’ve given for writing my draft on this topic today. With some much-needed change of room lighting, I have one curtain open for sunlight to come through. It’s still pretty breezy here in central Texas. It could be leftover wind from the gulf …

Characteristics of A Parent Entrepreneur

Do we dream of growing up to be parents and business owners at the same time? It’s rare. Not many people picture themselves running a family-owned business or just having a business and a family. But what if that path was your destiny to live? I’ve created a version of myself as a parent entrepreneur …

My Entrepreneur Lifestyle Vision

As many people who’ve become successful entrepreneurs, they may get asked where it all started. Some may look back to their childhoods or from a point in life that triggered something within their spirit to venture out, become an entrepreneur and own boss. Some people, rather a few of my hero entrepreneurs, had early signs …

Defining Myself As A Parent Entrepreneur

Parents wear so many hats, wouldn’t you agree with me? And not to mention all the ‘job titles’ we have that can’t be filled as a ‘real’ paying job. In my earlier post An Entrepreneur Within you’ve read about what my own list of characteristics for an entrepreneur is, and today I’d like to discuss …

Bucket Lists For A Purpose

New years fireworks

Who’s still talking about 2018 these days? Hi, and welcome back to my site. I’ll tell you my reasons for still continuing to talk about 2018 and the greatest new milestone I’ve reached to date. It’s perfectly alright to reflect back on past years. But are you so busy in life, you can’t even recall …

Chapter 2: Doors Are For Knocking On

Perspective really matters It’s amazing how with every new experience we go through in life, a new door of perspective opens up to us. I started to wholeheartedly open up to the new me and focus on my new life as a single mother. As a parent, we ask ourselves so many questions about our …