If you follow this blog, you know we just moved. It was a big move. Not just across town, but from all the way north to all the way north. From Wisconsin to Texas. Talk about adjustments!

We have been here 3 weeks and I am still looking for things. I have most of my kitchen all situated, but…

I go to look for a spoon and have to stop and think. Where did I put them? It’s like retraining my brain. I just walked half way across the kitchen before I realized the spoons were in the drawer that was right where I started.

Yes, I was a bit lost in my very own kitchen. Give it up, it happens. Until we know where everything is, without a doubt, then we will seem a bit lost and confused.

It’s the same thing with working at home. Sometimes we wandering around looking for the right tool, the right network, the right something. We have to get used to the environment. We have to learn where things are. We have to learn who to make connections with and how the community works.

Working from home should be about networking. Yes, you are working from home, but you are not there alone. People are only a phone call or an internet connection away. Find the connections, find out how others do it, and then find that you know where all your tools are safely stored in your kitchen, I mean home office!

For some time I have had questions. Let’s just saying working from home is not sitting around eating bonbons all day, far from it. One question I often find myself asking is this — are all the other WAHMs out there really doing as good as they say they are? Or is it all just bravado?

It almost seems as if I have lost touch with the networking that I was getting accomplished,  and this makes me question. All the sudden I am getting all these emails and messages that say, “Make $80,000 a month like I do, it’s easy!”

For starters I know it isn’t easy. It’s mostly hard work and stick-to-it-ness.

Many times you may feel like I do right now, cut off and out of it. Working from home is a very solitary type business. You often don’t have anyone to share these questions or thoughts with. It is only in venues such as blogs, FB and twitter that we receive answers and then some days it is hit or miss.

So, if you are a WAHM, how are you doing? Are there moments that you are ready to throw in the towel, or are you making $80,000 a month like my emails keep claiming?

Well, I’ve had a lot of comments and visitors! Thanks everyone! Sorry I haven’t been around a lot, there has been “like a zillion things going on” …  That said in my best valley girl accent… big smiles.

Once again this family is on the move. And that means cross country. While the girls weren’t excited at first, now that the movers are here and we are starting to see our stuff piled into boxes they are getting that way.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that movers come and pack my stuff up, load the truck and unload it at the other end. Makes the heavy lifting part of my life easier, but trust me it is still very stressful. Right now I want to see all my stuff on the back of a truck, it locked up tight and pulling away from the curb, on it’s way to the destination!

There was a mis-communication somewhere and they had only scheduled us for one day of packing…  WOW… so not going to happen! I’ve gotten rid of a lot of stuff, but trust me, there is a lot of stuff left to pack…

STRESS!

But there is good news on the horizon… Last night I got to start a brand new internship. I am so excited. I know LaTara and I know I will learn a ton from her. She knows my work and knows I can write, but I can’t market worth crap. But learning from her will give me a stepping stone to help my clients even more. I am sooo excited!

You see, I am not super woman, but I can manage to work and move at the same time. Thanks to modern technology! Think about it. I can communicate and write and even submit stuff all from the convenience of where I set my laptop down!

And you all did see that starting July 1st that Starbucks in the US is offering FREE Wi-Fi? Able to work for free and great coffee??  This life just ain’t so bad is it???