Mompreneur Musings: The Quest For Balance

Before I started to get ready to go to work the other day, my youngest daughter, age 4, came into my room and wanted to play a quick game of Connect 4. Before we started playing, she looked me directly in the eye and with a very serious expression (which is unusual for this giggle [...]

Fri. July 18 at 3:49pm - Voice Mail on Zoe Foods Answering Service
“…Yesterday on Rte 126 in Bellingham I hit a package that was in the middle of the road. I didn’t spot it right away. It was not an empty box like I thought it was. It was a box of your Zoe’s Energy Bars. [...]

Follow Your Intuition

I continued to interview more nanny candidates. The process had become very tedious. I even looked into hiring a nanny agency but just couldn’t get myself to spend a $3000 fee for a nanny who might only last one year. I received an email from a young woman via sittercity.com. She lived [...]

More than a quarter of all Americans are now obese, and that’s about a 2% increase from 2005 to 2007 according to U.S. government figures[1], in Reuters today[2]. And, despite the fact that the majority of foods targeting children are unhealthy (see my last posting), the childhood obesity rate has hit a plateau at 16% [...]

A new Canadian study suggests that foods targeting children that may appear healthful, but are not, appeared in the Time Magazine article “The Trouble with Healthy Kid Foods” last week.[1] The study excluded obvious junk foods and found that 62% of foods with a positive health claim are actually of “poor nutritional quality”.
 
The study [...]

I’m so excited about work. I’ve been trying to build Zoe Foods for 8+ years and we’ve been through some very interesting ups and downs. Zoe’s Granola was once ranked #7 out of all natural granola! With some recent improvements we’re hoping to get right back up there and beyond.Last Thursday, we sent an email [...]

Babu to The Rescue

My mom actually had a life of her own – how could I have possibly forgotten – tunnel vision had clearly set in. Thank you mom for all of your help then and now. My dad to the rescue for a day! Have you heard that a male nanny is called [...]

Too Good To Be True
SitterCity.com, 4nannies.com, enanny.com – I was through with trying to recruit someone through the local paper, and posted nanny listings on several nanny websites. I also looked into an au pair but didn’t think that would work given the number of hours we needed. Given my work load, my mom helped [...]

I got back from my business trip from the production run of our new granola and my girls were asleep. From their perspective, I was gone for three “sleeps” – not the two days I had promised. It seems to be tougher on my younger daughter, age 4, when I travel for work. My 5 [...]

No More DWI (Driving While Interviewing)

Still no nanny, but between my mom and working from home a couple of afternoons, I managed. It’s several weeks after I received my moving violation for taking a left on a red rather than sitting in the middle of a busy intersection, and it’s time to appear in [...]