http://sherrydedman.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:51:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Being a work at home mom has its challenges and drawbacks, but for the most part, it's really the best job I've ever had. Here are my top ten reasons why being a WAHM is awesome! 10. I can load & start the dishwasher on my morning break  9. I can ... http://sherrydedman.com/top-ten-awesome-things-about-being-a-work-at-home-mom/ As a Work At Home Mom, I find myself in need of certain things usually only available if you work in an office or have a lot of extra capital to work with. I have to keep my overhead as low as possible just to stay afloat, so I ... http://sherrydedman.com/5-resources-for-work-at-home-moms/ [caption id="attachment_134" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Twitter Car Battery Saga"][/caption]It's always fun to pop into the grocery store for four minutes, then come back out, get in your car, turn, the key, and hear "click, click, click, click..." Oh boy, dead battery. Better call AAA! That's what happened to ... http://sherrydedman.com/dead-car-battery-iphone-twitter-1-weird-hour/ I just finished an original site design and built a static site on WordPress for a new client, criminal defense attorney, Jonathan Dichter. I've recently honed my design skills, and I am more proud of this site than any I have done in the past. And the fact ... http://sherrydedman.com/static-site-built-on-wordpress/ I had trouble with Twitter and Facebook all morning. Twitter was slow to load, when it would load at all, and often would not change pages within the site. And Facebook wasn't just slow, it was giving me weird messages about not being able to write to the ... http://sherrydedman.com/twitter-livejournal-facebook-denial-of-service-attack/ [ This is part 8 of an 8-part article - Read Part 1... ] But I made it through that. My son started school, the large blog was launched, and more business was pouring in. I've had some very short periods of slowness with my business since then, but ... http://sherrydedman.com/successful-work-at-home-mom/ [ This is part 7 of an 8-part article - Read Part 1... ] So I decided that even as much as I hated the idea, the time had come to put my son in daycare and go back to seeking an Administrative Assistant position. I knew I was over-qualified ... http://sherrydedman.com/forced-to-ride-out-the-slow-times/ [ This is part 6 of an 8-part article - Read Part 1... ] That was in early February of 2008. Over the next month or month and a half, I scoured all the cities on Craig's List looking for WordPress gigs in the Computer Gigs section on Craig's List. ... http://sherrydedman.com/turns-out-the-need-was-out-there-just-waiting-for-me-to-fill-it/ [ This is part 5 of an 8-part article - Read Part 1... ] So as I did all of this as a hobby, something else was happening concurrently with that. I lost my job as an Administrative Assistant and my developmentally disabled son was becoming harder and harder to ... http://sherrydedman.com/accidentally-finding-a-need-and-filling-it/ [ This is part 4 of an 8-part article - Read Part 1... ] Diary-X was gone, but my Diary habit was well-developed, and I really missed it! I tried making my own site, but the dynamic nature of diary entries made it impossible for me, as all I had ... http://sherrydedman.com/how-this-disaster-helped-prepare-me-for-my-current-vocation/