I’m Sorry,
I don’t think you all get it. I’m going to speak for myself and not Jenn or anyone else, although she’s being addressed in my comments. What I’m doing right now is just that, what I’m doing right now. I’m not really sure why anyone thinks it is wrong though? It’s up to me if I want to sit on my butt and gain 600lbs. It’s up to me if I want to become a brain surgeon, it’s UP TO ME.
The reason I got into the paid posting thing was because everyone was doing it and talking about it. Everyone had great things to say about it. I set out wondering if I could fund an adoption with the money I made. See the fact of the matter is that I might be comfortable, I might be more than comfortable, it wasn’t a question of that. What it was a question of is living under my means to save and scrounge and worry about saving up to $30,000 for an adoption.
What I choose to do is my business. As long as I’m paying my taxes and claiming them I’m ok with the legal system and the rest of you could really piss off. My family has always been the most important thing to me. Right now I don’t feel like it’s a great idea to leave my child when she’s going to be in school next August. It’s senseless. If I want to work, I’ll do it then.
I worked hard to get this child. I cried my eyes out for months on end, I puked, had my face swell up from stress, and almost lost my mind ALL TO SAVE THIS CHILD’S LIFE. I’ll be damned if I’m going to leave her because “society” thinks I need to have a certain job. Will I keep doing what I’m doing to dress her in over priced clothing and give her the things she wants within reason? Hell yes.
Everyone has said that I think I’m better than everyone else this week. I told my husband this tonight and he laughed. I guess I think I’m better than everyone else. If I want to plop down $150.00 on an outfit to wear at Thanksgiving so my kid looks posh in Gymbo or $$ on pictures for Christmas so I can have the memories I will. If I’m not stealing anything from anyone or denying anyone anything they need to live then I don’t see anything wrong with it. If I want to blog for money to do these things that’s my choice.
I’ve said this 100 times over, I fully intend on going to school next year when Sydney starts school. I just wonder something. What will all of you who hate me for no reason have to slam me about when I’m a full time student who does the posting thing? What will you do when I’m a full time social worker dedicating my time and energy to saving the lives of kids and I’m doing the posting thing?
Because you know what? I’d be stupid to not do it if I have the time. If I’m not taking time away from anyone that I love, then I’d be stupid to sit here and surf the net instead of sit here and blog for cash. You all want to act like I think I’m so much better than everyone else, how about jumping off your high horses then judging me.
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*claps* Amen. While I’m all for women choosing to work if they want to, I’m also very supportive of women staying home to raise their families and be with their children 100% of the time, if they can afford to do so.
Oh well, I guess we’ll just have to be snobs together.
I’m just for women choosing to do what they want to do. I know plenty of stay at home mom’s who bust their asses doing anything they can to save money and make it work because their philosophy is why would I have these kids so daycare could raise them? I don’t fault anyone for either way, but I don’t see why people are so damning of SAHM’s?
I don’t think it’s fair that you get judged for posting advertisements. As long as you don’t break the law, you should be able to earn money however you want.
Why do people even care whether we are stay at home wives / moms and work from home rather than in any other setting?
I worked for 4 years in a financial institution as a members service officer (opening accounts, processing loans). I made nice money and got plenty of incentives but you know, I would much rather work from home doing what I do than have to put up with the constant stresses of working in THAT environment again. And considering we live about 15 minutes from town, I would much rather save the gas money (we are paying over $4 a gallon here).
I pay my taxes regardless if I am working from home or working in a bank, hospital, as a teacher or anything else. By paying my taxes, I am also contributing money to society. Taxes go towards all kinds of things, including supporting those who need assistance via welfare programs, correct?
People can fuss about it all they want. What we choose to do is our choice. I actually applaud women who want to stay at home with their little ones and earn money from home. If I had children, I would definitely want to do the same.
OK first of all $4.00 a gallon would mean 75% of the people here would be home bound. I live in the country in a smaller town, but I have to say the entire county and the town I grew up in is pretty much low budget. The majority of the people are working fast food and when I say fast food I don’t mean they cook at Applebee’s (impressive huh?) I mean they are working at McDonald’s for $6.00 an hour. It’s semi ridiculous. We have a large retirement community and a large over flow of Indy and Dayton/Cincy people who work in very high paying jobs but can’t live in those cities because of crime etc. It’s a great place to live here, but wow I just read that we have this huge drop out rate. I think I knew maybe 10 people who didn’t graduate. That’s pretty sad, it should be getting better not worse.
To address Alex. I agree it’s not a job, it’s a source of money. I agree with the garage sale thing too. I know full well about this because I worked with fundraisers for adoption and although it seemed like a job it wasn’t. Even though I put in 40 plus a week and dealt with numerous companies, it was all out of the kindness of my heart and the money we made went right into adoptions.
I think I refer to paid advertising as “job” because I don’t know how else to refer to it. I don’t think they like it if you use their names. They change that occasionally and they get their panties in a wad occasionally, so I think I job because literally dealing with some of those people sometimes is like a job. In the sense that you want to walk in and smack someone.
Cleaning disgusts me. Cooking is something I am like a savant at, but the cleanup disgusts me. If I could hire a maid and not be considered a complete lazy ass I’d do so. You know cause a stay at home mom should clean her house and love it. I’ll admit that’s one stereotype I’m not going to give in to and I’ll clean just so people will keep their mouths shut. I won’t like it, but I’ll clean.
where are you christmas…
We prod you to spend some more time looking up homemade christmas gifts material….