Tips for Work At Home Moms

Smart Moms is hosting a new blog carnival for work at home moms. This will be a weekly blog carnival for all work at home moms. Please email info@smartmoms-finishrich.com if you would like to host the blog carnival!

Our first topic: Tips for Work at Home Moms. Share with our Smart Mom community how you handle working at home and the challenges of being a mom. Please share your tip that can help other moms!

To participate:

1. Share your post that gives a great tip for a work at home mom. It can be a former post or a new post.
2. Link to this Smart Moms Blog carnival url (not the entire blog).
3. Leave a comment for us with the EXACT url of your blog post.
4. Please submit before February 8, 2008. The final post will be live on February 9.

Thanks for participating!

Here is my blog carnival example.

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Building Online Trust

When networking online, it is always important to remember that everything you leave behind, through links, comments, emails and articles are a calling card of your character and integrity.

You would be amazed how many times people steal content, articles, ideas and other things online and sign their name to it as if it was their own. I am sure that there isn't anything new under the sun, so something one person has done, may not be totally original, but there was time, thought and care put into things, and stealing it isn't worth it in the long run for your business.

Remember, slow and steady, consistent activity helps you build a positive reputation and character within the online community. There are no get rich quick schemes out there and there are plenty of clients, customers, and networks to go around.

Build your business by the "reap what you sow" mentality and your character will take you far in business. A few things to remember. Always include link backs to articles that have been written to the original author and website. Keep open lines of communication with all people you are networking with online. Most of all, participate in the health, success and well being of other businesses and people you are networking with online. Instead of just dropping you name and calling card in on a forum, become an active participant.

The more you learn and are willing to share, the better your business will be 10 years from now not just 10 minutes from now.


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Thankful Tuesdays

Today I am thankful for a call from my sister today. It was a call to remind me to check my smoke detectors. Unfortunately a family in their town just lost their home to an electrical fire yesterday. The worst part is that two of their kids were killed, the mother is in critical condition and the third child has burns on 25% of her body. It's such a sad story, but a sober reminder that we all need to check our alarms.

The interesting part is that I was very confident that our smoke detection was linked with our alarm system. But just to confirm I called today and found out that it was not. So, tomorrow we will have that connected as well as the Carbon Monoxide detectors. If it were not for my sister's call, I would have just kept on assuming.

So, I encourage everyone to take the time to check their batteries in their smoke detectors and to ensure that your family has an escape route and that your kids know how to escape (one of the deaths was because the boy got scared and hide in the closet). It's so important to discuss these things with your kids!!

Funny things kids say...

As of today I am 34 weeks pregnant (only 6 weeks to go - if that since my first was 1 1/2 weeks early). My 3 year old daughter is ecstatic about having a little sister and talks about her to everyone we meet out and about. I'm thrilled that she is over the moon about all this and it's funny to see her monitor my "growth" since my tummy is eye level to her. Over the weekend she made the realization that "Mama, your tummy is getting BIG. It's like you have my beach ball up there!" What could I do but agree. I do look like her beach ball is stuck up my shirt!

Did I mention I only have 6 weeks until my due date? I'm ready to have the beach ball out. :)


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Family FunTime Blog

To partner with our Family Fun Time website, we have started a new blog with weekly tips for family fun. If you are looking for ideas of things to do with your family, the 4fabmoms will keep you informed. With recipes, games, and crafts, we will have a little something for everyone in any age range.

We know this is going to be a great resource for moms!

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