The Diary Begins - Day1

My daughter will be 5 years old in January. For 5 years, my goal has been to be a stay-at-home mom. Although I’ve made various attempts through the internet over the past 5+ years, I have not been able to accomplish the long sought after goal of staying at home with my children rather than working 40 hours a week. There are soooo many ways to make money on the internet, but it’s soooo difficult to determine which offer is legitimate, which will make GOOD money and which will make $.12 a week.

My pattern thus far:

• Be drawn in by a tempting sales pitch to try some new website that will make m a lot of money.
• I’ll start researching one option to make money on the internet, then giving up because it seems so overwhelming. Sometimes there are so many different things to think about just do to work through one route.
• While I’m researching that last option something else sounds pretty straight forward so I get started investigating that option in conjunction with getting the ball rolling on the new endeavor.
• When I don’t see money right away (which is most of the time) I start to wonder if I’m putting in more time than it’s worth. It’s a constant struggle with so many factors coming into play. The only thing that keeps me trying for this internet money is the fact that people DO making money on the internet. I KNOW it’s possible. I just need to find a happy medium: high rate of return on my time, simple enough for me to learn on my own without paying someone to tutor me through it, no investment since I’ve done enough of that already.

A few of my most recent methods of trying to make money on the internet:

• The newest has been mylot. Now I don’t make a lot of money there, but the advise from users has been invaluable so the profit for that site isn’t important to me.
• Another one has been CIAO.com that after paying $1 for a review is down to paying only $.25 for a review. That I immediately determined is not worth my time. Although at $1 it was only enough to get my creative juices flowing; not enough to make me a stay-at-home mom by any stretch of the imagination.
• I tried Ebay for a while and other auction sites, but the other auction sites don’t hold a candle to Ebay.
• I have looked into adwords to pay-per-click, but to do it effectively, you should buy into a program or two and without proof it will work I can’t do that. On top of those programs I’d also pay for every click to my website. And who knows if anyone will buy once they’re there.
  
  

As my struggle continues to be a stay-at-home mom, my children grow and grow. My daughter, Hannah, is in 4K half days. My son, Jonah, stays home with his father (my husband during the week), and has daycare 3 mornings a week. I know they would still benefit from me being a stay-at-home mom even once they’re in school so just because they’re becoming school age doesn’t mean I’ll be giving up. I know it would have meant a lot to me if my mom were home when I got home from school. I would have known I was priority. I still remember dislocating my knee in high school: after a kid pulled it so it went back into place, my mom should have probably been called to pick me up but I stuck out the last class with my leg propped up on a neighboring chair because I didn’t want the school to bother her at work. To think, I thought she wouldn’t want to come pick me up because of work. I don’t want my kids to ever feel that way. I want them to know nothing is in my way to keep me from them. Sure I could tell them that, but that doesn’t have as much meaning as being home and them not seeing that workplace as an obstacle. There is also the idea that when they come home I’d be able to help them with their homework right away. They wouldn’t be sitting in front of the tv waiting for me to have time for them. I would also have so much more time to care for the home. Clean, cook, take care of my husband. I do that now, but it’s not at the 100% level that it could be if I didn’t have to work 40 hours a week outside of the home. When I’m home I should be making up for lost time with the kids so my biggest concern isn’t that the house be spotless or that the dinner is top notch. At the end of the day I’m tired from being a mom and working outside of the home. It’s hard to make time for my husband like I should.

My most lasting venture has been a website called DNAEtc.com D=Dave (my husband) ‘N’ A=Angela We own the domain name for a year and the website is a dropshipping website that I paid a one time fee of $200 for. One good thing is that I don’t have to pay any monthly fees, while many people pay monthly fees to companies hosting their websites. Now the only problem is how do I promote this website? Adwords is an investment. And after so many companies promise something for something and I never get anything I don’t want to put anymore into this venture without seeing something come out of it. I’ve decided that this blog is one way to advertise. I’ll get into other ways I’m advertising on future blogs. Feel free to request updates whenever I add a new blog entry. Eventually I’ll add photos of my kids. You’ll want to stay tuned for those cuties. J