The beginning of the end?

By: Charlotte on 12:37

Ok, this is a little weird.

I'm so used to sharing everything I write on my blog to so many people... and now I have this new little blog that NOBODY knows about (yet! hehe).

Looks a bit bare at the moment, right? Well hopefully not for long!

This blog will (fingers crossed) document my strategies of becoming a stay at home, NOPE, work at home parent.

As I'm going along I will share the things that work, things that don't work and hopefully some day I will actually make it, and inspire others who dream of being at home with their littles and making an income at the same time.

But before I get started, more about me.

I am a student and mum to two boys (3 and 5)... I currently have a parenting and lifestyle blog, but I wanted to keep this separate :).

Now, this may seem like cheating BUT I am kind of at home already. But not really. As I said I am a student, currently taking a break from my course. I'm studying for something that I'm passionate about, and if I do go back and finish my degree I'll be done by August and by October I'll be earning around £26k per year, or around £2k per month starting salary. Not bad huh?

But the tradeoff? I'll be going back to a life that made me miserable, left me days on end without seeing my children, left me coming home in tears over what I did or didn't do and the emotional responsibility of someone else's life in your hands, left me with insomnia from awful shift patterns including tons of night shifts...

And whilst I'm passionate about the work that I do, and miss it terribly... I'm so much happier now. Because that job isn't conducive to the kind of home environment I want for my family or children. It doesn't gel well with kids that aren't in school or childcare or a family that wants to travel and live life spontaneously.

But do you know what does? Working from home. Working online. Flexible income. Passive income.

And you know what? This career, this passion will be there when my kids are grown up. But the relationship I have with my kids probably won't be when they're grown up if I keep on the path I'm heading down.

So I want to make this work. Somehow. And I guess this is kind of like my accountability journal. And ideas journal. And I'm sure I'll make mistakes along the way, but we all learn from our mistakes so I'm not frightened of that :). I'm way more afraid of living a life I don't love

So until next time,

Charlotte x