This is a rare one - Ariel’s taking a nap! She hasn’t done that in several weeks, and hasn’t napped this early in the day for a year, maybe two years. She was telling me earlier her stomach was hurting. I have a bit of a bug too, but it’s not enough to slow me down so far. Gage is just sniffly and extra clingy.

I was going to head out grocery shopping today; now it looks like I’d better wait until the kids are in bed. I don’t like taking sick kids out and about.

On the plus side, I might be able to get some extra online work done… maybe. So much depends on Ariel and Gage’s needs whenever they’re awake. I can work with Gage on my lap, of course, and he enjoys that most of the time. But a sick 3 year old can require more.

Good thing I have some chicken soup in the cabinet! I know what lunch will be for Ariel today!

I think I like where this one is heading. I’ve made some improvements, added a calendar, and just have had fun figuring out what sort of information to include. This one is focusing on work at home needs, but I’m thinking of doing others. It’s challenging thinking of ways to make these pages appealling, and I hope I have done a good job.

Ah, the price of success. I spent a lot of time this weekend helping my brother-in-law get his first website up. It’s Family Camping and Fishing. Took a lot of work getting things going for him, but I think he has the basics down now. So far we’ve put up a store on it and he’s added some articles. He still needs to do some of his own writing and submit to directories so his site starts getting indexed.

Given the topic and the time, I don’t know if it will be well indexed in time for Christmas, but it should be quite ready when spring and summer come along, which should be a good time for it.

Ariel had so much fun, since it was three days in a row that she got to go visit with her cousins, a rare treat.

Then last night we camped out in the back yard, to prepare for a camping trip near the end of October.

It’s a work in progress still, but I’ve put up a Work at Home Page. The idea is to create a good home page for work at home parents. I’m not sure I am quite satisfied with it yet. I need to improve how it links to Craigslist, since there are so many cities to search there, and maybe a little more work on the layout.

It’s a challenge finding the right resources for this. There are only so many good resources for work at home jobs, of course. I don’t want to overburden the page with advertising either. It’s an interesting challenge deciding how I want to do all of this.

This was a good weekend. I found out at the last minute about a community event going on just a few miles from home, so I called my mother to invite her. We took the kids and Ariel had an absolute blast on the rides. I had never been to that particular park before - great playground!

Ariel loved seeing the animals they had there too. She almost got pecked in the face by a turkey just as we were warning her not to put her face so near to it. I’m pretty sure the turkey missed, or at least didn’t leave a mark, but it gave Ariel quite a scare. They also had horses, goats, rabbits and a pig.

I spent yesterday working on a new work at home scam section for the site. I’m trying to cover the common scams work at home parents face. I have a pretty good number up already, but if you know of something I’ve missed that ought to be there, say so. I’m not doing individual companies; I’m explaining how each scam works and what the warning signs are. Many scams, of course, are in competition with very similar legitimate opportunities.