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Made it through my daughter's birthday party. It was fairly small, just family. I don't see the point in big parties for a 2 year old. We barbequed and played with the kids.
Now it's time to get ready for Mother's Day. My husband's family has a nice tradition. They get together at the bay for a big family get together, multi-generational as well as multi-family. My family is joining in this year, and my grandparents on my mom's side will be in town, as well as my cousin, whose daughter is just three days older than Ariel. It should be a lot of fun.
I wish all of you mommies out there a wonderful Mother's Day. And any daddies out there reading this, make it wonderful and have fun.
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Finding a work at home job is not easy. The field is very competitive, and it can take months to land a job. You can improve your chances by having a well-written resume.
The first thing to remember is that if you aren’t qualified for a job, there is very little point in applying for it. Take a good look at your skills. Do you know what data entry involves? How fast can you type? Do you have a quiet room for taking telephone calls? These are questions you may need to consider, depending on the kind of work at home job you are applying for.
List your relevant skills first. If you are applying for a range of job types, you may need to rearrange these so that the most relevant skills come first for each kind of job. Remember, employers are often looking at hundreds of applicants, so you need to catch their eye right off the bat.
List your employment history starting from your most recent or current position and going back. Particularly if you have never held a work at home position, emphasize anything that shows your ability to work without supervision. Remember, this is a vital skill for work at home employees, no matter the job. Especially if you have had a work at home position before, tell why you left the position. List about 4 jobs at the most. More tend to indicate you either change jobs too often and have had a lot of jobs in only a few years, or go back too far in time to be considered relevant. If a job was short term by its nature, say so. Call it contract, seasonal or freelance, depending on which is most relevant.
If you have very little employment experience due to recent graduation from high school or college, emphasize your education history over your employment history. Take a look at the classes you took and how they might apply to the job you are interested in. If you have a college degree, do not bother listing your high school education. Include any achievements as well.
Do you volunteer? This is the time to let employers know, and how it is relevant to the job you are interested in. You can develop great skills from volunteering. Skip ones related to religion in general, as this could lead to discrimination.
If you have a relevant hobby, you can list it, but not otherwise.
For work at home positions, it is a very good idea to include your references. Three to six are sufficient. No family members or roommates, please. Former co-workers or people who work in management are good choices.
Keep your resume clean and straightforward. Do not change fonts all over the place.
If you are emailing your resume, put it in plain text at the end of your email. Do not send as an attachment unless requested. Many people will not read attachments for fear of viruses. Email your resume to yourself before sending it to an employer to ensure that the text version comes through cleanly. You may want to consider formatting it to a 65 character line to ensure that the lines wrap correctly. It’s pretty much the only formatting you can do with plain text. Most people can receive HTML email now, so if you want to format, it is most likely okay, but there is always the chance that they will not be able to read it correctly, so decide if you want to format your resume that way.
Consider having a webpage with your resume on it. A free hosting service works well enough for this if you are looking for a job, but not if you are freelancing. Do not get fancy with this page. You want your online resume and portfolio if relevant to be as clean as it would be on paper.
You will want to consider having more than one version of your resume. Tailor to each job title you are considering, so that you can emphasize the skills most relevant to that job. It’s not much extra work, but might just get you that job.
Finally, write a good cover letter. It should give more detail to your most important points on your resume. Do your best to give the impression of a hard worker who can work independently.
Stephanie Foster is the owner of Home with the Kids, a resource that knows that there's more to staying home with your family than just business. From money saving tips to parenting and marriage tips, to work at home jobs and businesses, you can get information and support here. You can visit the site at http://www.homewiththekids.com.
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It Can’t Be Four Weeks Already…
Summer camps are a relatively guilt free way to take a parenting vacation during the summer.
Buses load with groups of campers burdened with enough gear to last for several summers, all carefully labeled and packed with love. Tears get shed by kids and by parents. The engines start, the buses leave and the silence that remains is an echo of the emptiness you feel at sending your charming, but noisy, little one off to camp.
Back at home you realize that you MISS the chaos that you live in when the kids are around. Parents are well trained and long spells of quiet usually mean trouble. The alarm in your head is not easy to turn off… so you keep checking only to discover… “Oh, that’s right… they’re at camp!”
All of the fantasies about how the freedom from being Mom and Dad would improve the romance are shattered by the fact that you just feel mopey with no little voice at your elbow!
You can prepare for parental separation anxiety. Start with choosing the right camp. Do your homework. Talk to other parents who have used local camps. A bad camp will have a reputation. A visit to the camp before the event will help you visualize what your child is doing. Make sure that the camp uses mature, well trained counselors. Checking the camp’s accreditation should ease your mind.
Find a camp that caters to your child’s interests. Our horse loving daughter remembers the riding lessons at summer camp. Even cleaning the stables has turned into a warm memory! If you are raising a computer genius, check the camps that focus on this. You’ll score with a sports camp for the budding baseball pro. There are so many specialty camps that finding the perfect match is just a matter of research and budget. Double check to make sure that there is a good ratio of counselors and equipment to campers. There’s nothing more frustrating than going to a computer camp to get an hour on the computer every day.
Make some plans for yourself. Getting together with other suddenly childless couples is a good way to take advantage of the hours of free time that appear when children are absent.
Going to a movie or restaurant without having to make bathroom trips is a wonderful experience! Planned dates will let you enjoy the fun of being a couple that seems to get buried in parenting and will make sure that you don’t sit around missing your baby.
As amazing as it seems, you will start to enjoy the peace in your home. But be warned… the day after you discover that you really like not having to clean jelly from the coffee table or being able to watch some adult TV before ten at night… you’ll be back at the bus stop picking up the kids!
Margaret Chiffriller is a former educator and freelance writer. She is currently the CEO of Chiff Inc, a privately owned company. Chiff Inc produces the popular Chiff.com directory, a guide to the best pop-up free sites on the Web and the Chiff Local directory, a web site and directory listing for your business that can be searched by Postal ZIP code, town, city or other local information. You can find the information you are looking for at http://www.chiff.com/.
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