A WAHM Writes

February will be a turning point in our life. I've been working at home for 10 years. My husband followed a few months after but also went fulltime into business in 2018. Everything was good. Our freelance career paid for our house, our car, our daughter's schooling, and dance lessons. But things changed in Sept 2019. I lost my only contract. I had to stress that because it was the first time in my entire freelance career that I devoted myself to just one job. But life goes on. After assessing our situation, my husband and I decided that he needs to get a more stable job but still retain KANSIS Made . And I still need a freelance contract that I can do at home so I can take care of the business. After months and months of applying, he was able to get into the perfect job! I consider it perfect because of a lot of things: it is about 20 minutes away from our place, it is a reputable company, the position is something I believe he would love doing, and the work schedule w...

Fulltime WAHM since Nov 2009. My decision to become one gave birth to this blog. 😍 In 2015, my husband started KANSIS Made and I had to juggle my time between freelance work and being the business director of our micro-enterprise. In doing both plus being a hands-on mom, I've always met challenges with time management. But in every crossroad, I always remind myself of the reason why I decided to leave the corporate world and become a fulltime WAHM - to have more time with my family. I've always tried to advocate the benefits of being a fulltime WAHM to fellow moms and moms to be. I don't tire of talking about how I started as a fulltime WAHM and together with my husband, we managed to pay off the house, the car and send our daughter to school. Manila Workshops is organizing an event that will be the  biggest gathering of aspiring and successful entrepreneurs and freelancers in the Philippines on January 11, 2020,  Entrepreneurs and Freelancers Forum 2020 (EFF) t...

Mondays are usually slow. Weekends are too busy that you need at least half of Monday to recharge and function again. Posted this one... Patience. Consideration. Positivity. This little girl inspire us everyday to be a better version of ourselves. She is also a constant reminder for us to always look at the brighter side of things. Yesterday, we had a very huge schedule conflict. We were needed for some shepherding duties and she had to be in her Christmas ballet recital pictorial. She initially agreed to just back out and not join the show since she knows our priority will always be our responsibilities for God. Of course, we won't let that happen (besides, we were told that the registration fee of 3k isn't refundable  😩 ). We tried to negotiate and plan ahead. We thought we worked it out but there are really things that are beyond our control. We arrived late and she wasn't able to join the group pictorial for their dance school page.  😭 But you know what she ...

More than a year since the last post. I am a bit disappointed with my writer self--- because it allows itself to be consumed by my WAHM duties. The Pause. Almost three weeks since my WAHM schedule was paused. In Aug 2018, I was able to work for a start up where I was able to grow and learn with a wonderful team. Last month, that wonderful patch of my life ended and I just earned back 40 hours a week of my life. What to do? I started applying for jobs online again. I was able to get one job- digital marketing assistant, as needed only, so less to almost no work weekly. I have an application in progress for another digital marketing assistant project- passed two initial interviews and preparing now for one final interview with the CEO on Monday. Yesterday, with the help of a fellow WAHM, I got accepted to a writing gig, about 2 or 3 articles a week. Writing about all these, I am now thinking if The Pause is an apt title for this post.  Last week, I asked a frien...

Almost 3 weeks since my last post. Will try to give a rundown of the days that passed. I've been to occupied that I wasn't able to update my daily journal too. The last monday of February (26th) was not a good one for me. I became too angry with McKenzie and it ended with a meltdown--- again. Not too happy about it. She went to school with a heavy heart because of me. Blessed with a husband who makes sure I got his shoulder to rant out all the negative thoughts and emotions.

More than a week ago, I wrote about letting go of the worries I have on the latest changes in our life. We've always believed that God will always provide. The previous week was full of blessings for us.

Two weeks ago, my husband had to let go his fulltime job as a data analyst to be able to focus on KANSIS Made.