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Internet Radio Changed Mom's Business and Life!

Internet Radio changed Mom's Life and Business!
by Kelly McCausey

Internet Radio changed Kelly McCausey's business and it ended up changing her life.

In early 2002 Kelly turned to the internet to help her earn some extra money. She built her first business website to promote a freelance desktop publishing company that she would be doing from home to provide some much needed extra cash. Already employed full time, she just wasn't making enough money to make ends meet. As a single Mom, Kelly wanted to earn more without sacrificing the amount of time she had to be home with her son.

Interestingly enough, the only job offers that came her way were not to do desktop publishing but rather friends and acquaintences asked her to build them a website or to help with their web graphic needs. Just a few weeks later Kelly tweaked her website to highlight these services instead and she soon had a steady flow of clients.

It was in 2003 that she first learned about internet radio. A longtime audible learner, she searched for programs of interest and found one that talked often about internet business and occassionally highlighted a work at home Mom. She devoured the audio archives and couldn't wait to hear the next episode each week.

She became so enamoured with internet audio that she looked for ways to incorporate audio with her existing websites, choosing to launch a short audio newsletter for her work at home Mom directory website, USAWAHM.com . The newsletter was only five minutes a week and quickly grew a listenership.

Then the worst happened. The internet radio program that she enjoyed so much went off the air. After several weeks she realized it wasn't coming back and search as she might, there were no other programs out there with similar content. This got her thinking seriously about how to bring more audio content to the web for other Moms like her.

With the sponsorship of InternetBasedMoms.com, Kelly launched Work at Home Moms Talk Radio in November 2003. An independant internet radio show on a shoestring budget, the show had over 250 weekly listeners before the end of the year. When podcasting exploded in fall of 2004, Kelly jumped onto the podcast wave, further growing her listenership and increasing her excitement about audio on the web.

Kelly believes that more Moms should launch internet radio programs and podcasts on a wide range of family freindly topics. She created a tutorial that shows how it can be done and is forming a network of programs to help to co-promote one another's shows, The Mom Cast and Mom's Radio Network.

WAHM Talk Radio changed the face of Kelly's business. She rarely accepts design work and has instead developed a large portion of her income through affiliate marketing. She mentors other work at home Moms in creating successful online businesses as well.
While Kelly discovered that what you start out with is not always what you end up with in business, it is important to find something that you feel passionate about and will enjoy doing over the long term. Internet business success is cumulative and she feels that she is just now reaping the true profits from her many hours of hard work over the years.

Moms, Get more Ideas here!

The Play Opens tomorrow

We will be attending Life and Other One-Man Shows tomorrow.
Rachel will be doing a monologue.

amomslove

Life. And Other One-Man Shows

cup-a-jo productions presents
Life. And other one-man shows.

Multimedia production with theme of suffering.

Pittsburgh, PA January 12th - 28th, 2006
cup-o-jo productions presents
Life. And other one-man shows.
january 12th - 28th(with opening night soiree)
gallery opens @ 7pmshow @ 8pm
thursday - saturday@ pittsburgh playwrights theatre
penn ave & 6th st. downtown
between starbucks and subway

thursday $8
friday & saturday $10

play by joanna lowe

films by eric sipple, joanna lowe
& lucas mcnelly

poetry by sarah williams, robert isenberg, joanna lowe,matt reed, kahmeela adams-findley

music: Stephen Vesolich composer/musician);

dance: Lisa Laura Lucci (choreopgrapher/dancer), Beth Ratas, Kacey Byrne-Houser;

acted by bridget carey, jeffrey simpson, greg caridi,
everett lowe, molly semeret, chris bondi, joanna lowe,
joe lyons, rachel shaw, dianna ifft, jasonta roberts-deen, mark muzopapa, leah klocko, allison cahill, j.p. patrick, dan stiker

art by andres ortiz-ferrari, jason findley, robert isenberg, sarah williams, allison hoge

call or e-mail for reservatiions
412-334-3126
e-mail cupajoprod@gmail.com

Rachel in the Brides Room

Getting ready for the wedding. 

Took the Tree Down

So sad, played Christmas carols for the last time.
Cleaned the corner out where the tree stood and packed
everything up.

Now I have to concentrate on redo-ing this house.

Happy New Year Articles

Happy New Year!

Let Your New Years Be Kind
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-kindyear.html
Provide journals. (You might place the guys in front of the T. V.)You can pick some up at a dollar store or even rather well priced atyour favorite grocery store.

This Year's Resolution? Simplify!Stephania Munson
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-newyears-simplify.html
"With a nod to Thoreau, we can put a lot of life in sharper perspective by listening to what this early American thinker discovered during his self-imposed exile at Walden Pond:'...men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost....'"

Learn how to make your homeschool more fun and a natural part ofyour day-to-day life.• Simple, stress-free steps to teaching your child to read.• What questions you should ask to help you determine yourphilosophy of education.copy and paste in your browser
http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com/subscribe/secrets.php?hop=amomslove

Make It a Goal to Make Resolutions!by Sue Dickinson
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-newyears-goal.html
"I don't think anyone can go through a New Year's Eve without at least considering setting some "New Year's Resolutions". You know the standard resolutions: lose weight, make more money, spend less money, exercise. So many people make resolutions, but so often they are forgotten..."

Lose weight for New Years:
http://www.amomslove.com/health-staymomdiet.html

History of Modern New Year's Celebrationsby Michelle Gonzalez
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-newyears-history.html
"The tradition of celebrating the beginning of the New Year actually dates back as early as approximately 2000 B.C. - about 4000 years ago. The ancient Babylonians would begin an 11 day celebration with the first day of the New Moon after the Vernal Equinox (beginning ofSpring)."

5 Ways to Kick the Procrastination Habit!by Julie Plenty
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-newyears-procrastination.html
"How many of us rush around doing things at the last minute? How many times have we mentioned something that we felt we ought to do and said "yes, I'll get round to it" - but "it" never happens.Procrastination means to "defer action" and is a great delaying tactic - but it rarely serves us well,unless we know what's behind it and what to do about it...."

A Moms Love New Year's Menu
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-party.html

New Years Eve Menu and Recipes

A Moms Love New Year's Menu
by Caroline Shaw

Sweet 'n Sour Meatballs(recipe below)
tortilla cream cheese and salsa wraps(then slice into pinwheels)
potato chips
black diamond white cheddar cheese
pecorino cheese
pumpernickle bread
breton crackers
kielbassa from the strip
(http://www.neighborsinthestrip.com/)
salad with cukes lettuce tomatoes and homemade french...
(oil, vinegar, sugar, honey, paprika, salt, pepper)

gingerale, coke and sparkling grape juice

Sweet 'n Sour Meatballs

2 lbs. Ground beef
½ cup of bread crumbs
1 tsp. Salt ¼ tsp. Pepper
1 medium onion chopped
2 eggs
Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Shape into 1-1/2 inch balls.
Brown meatballs in oil and drain fat.

Sauce for Meatballs

4 tbsp. Of brown sugar
3 tbsp. Of cornstarch
1 cup of water
2 cans of pineapple chunks (reserve syrup)
1 cup of syrup... from cans of pineapple
6 tbsp. Of apple cider vinegar
4 tbsp. Of soy sauce
4 green peppers cut into 1 inch pieces

In large skillet add sugar, and cornstarch tobrowned meatballs. Stir in water, syrup, vinegarand soy sauce. Heat mixture until boils andthickens, stirring constantly. Add pineapple,green pepper. Simmer covered, 15 to 20 minutes See http://www.amomslove.com/moms-party.html
and http://www.amomslove.com/hol-home-newyears.html

Christmas Articles on AMomslove.com

Christmas Articles on A Moms Love

A Three-Part Plan to Enjoy the Festive Season
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-working-enjoyfest.html

Tips to an Easy Holiday Shopping Experience
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-christmas-easyshop.html

Christmas Gift Ideas
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-christmas-cheapgift.html

Gifts in a Jar
http://www.amomslove.com/hg-recipes-giftjars

Mommy...Daddy...is there really a Santa Claus?
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-christmas-issanta.html

Don't Let the Marketers Ruin Your Holidays
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-edit-dads.html

Merry Christmas, Santas
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-christmas-santas.html

Christmas Memories
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-christmas-memories.html

In a "Holidaze"?
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-christmas-holdaze.html

Christmas...Real Jobs
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-road-holidayjobs.html

Come On In and Smell the Christmas
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-road-smellchristmas.html

Cleaning My House Gives Me Christmas Money
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-road-christmasmoney.html

Christmas Memories, RV Style
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-road-christmasmemories.html

When I Was Little
http://www.amomslove.com/hol-christmas-wheniwaslittle.html

Gift Ideas for Childcare Providers
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-single-gifts.html

Surperwoman's Christmas
http://www.amomslove.com/health-superwoman.html

Give Presence not Presents
http://www.amomslove.com/kitchenzine.html

Christmas of 1985
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-working-christmas85.html

Holiday Party Planning Guide
http://www.amomslove.com/moms-party.html

Christmas Links
http://www.amomslove.com/news.html

Look around the magazine...there is probably stuff I forgot I have.

Christmas Hints

Read Best Gift Stories Here:
http://www.amomslove.com/contests-stories.html

OK I am making a list and checking it twice.
Stay tuned to AMomsLove Holiday Gift Guide:
Page One: ...gorgeous rings, candles,side tables, flatware!
http://www.amomslove.com/shopping-christmas.html

Page Two:"Honey, buy me anything on this page!"
http://www.amomslove.com/shopping-christmas2.html

Page Three:...something for everyone.
http://www.amomslove.com/shopping.html

Watch for more!

Christmas Hints:
Ask for extra boxes at stores,Take advantage of charity gift wraps

Last minute gifts:
candles, magazine subs (Vogue, Country Living)framed photos of you and your friend, the kids,an artful landscape you took on vacation,

Biscuit mixes, cookie mixes, brownie mixes in a pretty jar, make a tin of your favorite tea bags in a satin pouch or decorated tin,
Bath Care Set (lotion, shampoo, bath salts,loofahs...from a DrugStore or Grocer.
Bake cookies package in brown paper bags with ribbon...line with
foil or wax paper.

So GQ

Chuck at Door for Mistletoe

Check out Incredible Christmas Music Light Display

You have to check out this guy's genius and these lights...although I don't get the peace sign??
http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv
and read the story on the guy that designed the display from a town north of Cincinnati.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/09/eveningnews/main1115306.shtml

Before Christmas

We are waiting for a big snow storm here in Western PA.
Nice time to cozy up before a fire, or say, The Apprentice:)
Going to snuggle in and do a couple of lesson plans on the couch
and wait for the snow to begin falling.

I only wish we were in cook forest to watch the snow fall in a cabin.

The Day After Thanksgiving

We had a very nice Thanksgiving, except...Rachel,Peter and Julie,Joey were in Kansas, Gretchen,Nate, Sam were in Philly and Bridgie was at work (she popped in later tho and enjoyed the food)

We had Turkey, Stuffing, succotash, cranberry sauce, asparagus, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, thanks to Mr. Birchler's garden:)
Pumpkin and cherry pie for dessert.

Kelly, Dad, Damon and Charlie...and Bridgette and me were all at our table.

Mom

A Few Days Before Thanksgiving

Hello,

Hope you are having a wonderful Saturday.

I just posted a couple of recipes for Thanksgiving.

One is Simple Butternut Squash:
http://amomslove.com/hg-recipes-thanksgiving-butternut.html

and
the other is Sweet Potato Casserole:
http://amomslove.com/hg-recipes-thanksgiving-sweetpotato.html

My husband is blowing leaves outside.

Decorate Naturally for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving…..if you are lucky enough to have wood floors: What an exquisite natural backdrop for Thanksgiving decorating.

Please find a wonderful tall rattan vase

And go out in your yard and pick some dried plants that will nicely complement the wood.
Place this as the centerpiece on your table or mantle.

Of course you can gather pine cones and dried gourds at your grocer and craft shop…place those around your centerpiece and throw some dried leaves as a muted yellow orange brown backdrop. The hydrangeas and marigolds, mums, asters can make a nice arrangement for your side tables.

Load this wonderful bowl with fruit and vegetables…acorn, butternut squash as a woodsy accompaniment to your natural décor. While you are out shopping make sure you pick up some fabulously fall fabric to drape over your windows as valances and across your mantle and buffet. Arrange some sheer material around your centerpieces to create an ethereal mist. Gather the grape vines and make some swags for your doorway or wreaths as door welcomes. Find a wonderful brass tray place some brown, pumpkin, cream, pillar candles. Your home can be sooo inviting…Want to make a quick but exciting change cheaply?

Throw around oriental runners and area rugs. I can't begin to tell you the wonder that lace curtains, scarfed valances from sheer fall colored material and fall colored runners and area rugs can do to your Thanksgiving atmosphere in your home for your guests.

And look at the prices here on ebay….Here is a beaut!

So you have the centerpieces, the candles, the swags, scarves, runners, rugs, fruited bowls… Now all you need is the food: Check out two great menus and recipes:
From The Stallion Store and
Lorrie Ann Danner's Complete Thanksgiving Dinner
Please remember to have somegrateful cider:
Caroline

Just remember …you don't have to use all these ideas. You don't want to have to take all this down to prepare for Christmas that's just around the corner.
Complete Thanksgiving Menu and Recipes by Lorrie Ann Danner http://www.amomslove.com/hg-recipes-thanksgiving.html

Decorate for Thanksgiving

Years of having to make do have turned me into a…"There must be someway I can do this cheaper type person."
My old new house needs total make over. We are thinking about moving into my MIL's house. So I am walking around looking and thinking, my goodness, this will be way too much to do and then the old, "There must be someway I can do this cheaper type person" kicks in and I think, yah, there must.
First curtains need to be put up on the windows. I will check all of Grandma's fabric…and she has tons, and see if some of it can be salvaged for window treatments. Gee, today all you really need is a nice wooden Venetian blind and a swag or scarf.
I am thinking about sticking with the umbers I see outside this time of year (November). I already bought my border for the kitchen at a B&B we went to a couple of weeks ago, and it kind of has a sultry tone to it. You can do the same thing with fabric. Just take a quick trip to Wal-mart's fabric Dept. They are always getting rid of material at bargain prices. If you are doing a dining room for Thanksgiving, do swags/scarf for the windows and a table cloth, placemats and napkins.
It really wouldn't take as long as you think. Put up some lace curtains and make a scarf from the fabric you use for your table cloth..or maybe you have a plain white table cloth already available. Just make a runner that matches your window scarves, napkins and placemats.

Now what about the centerpiece? I like this idea on about.com Just has some greens and Fall leaves, candles…well, take a look: About.com It's one where you can just remove the fall leaves and replace with berries for Christmas. Saving time is what it's all about. Put up some wreaths on the doors and over the mantle. A simple grape vine with dried flowers in fall tones is nice. Use some wire ribbon to make a bow.
Put up plain candlesticks with fall colored candles and don't forget the whole theme of Thanksgiving is giving thanks for our bounty. Use displays of fruit and gourds, pumpkins and mums. Get out an old watering can and fill it with leaves to place on the porch, any old galvanized buckets? Put wheat or tall dried grass display in your bucket. Don't forget the grapes. Take a nice glass pedestal compote and cascade different varieties.
If you have a garden, pile the day's garden harvest into a wheel barrow at the back door.
Just remember …you don't have to use all these ideas. You don't want to have to take all this down to prepare for Christmas that's just around the corner.
Complete Thanksgiving Menu and Recipes by Lorrie Ann Danner http://amomslove.com/hg-recipes-thanksgiving.html

Music and for Your Halloween Party

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Halloween Funhttp://amomslove.com/hol-halloween.html This article has it all...face paint, recipes, you name it.
http://amomslove.com/hol-halloween-homeandhearth.html Jello Brains and Finger Eclairs
Spooky Recipes Vegetable Lice and Deviled Eggs
Jack-O-Lantern Cookies
Music for Halloween:
Bright Eyes
Funeral Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Transatlanticism Death Cab For Cutie
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Red's Drink

Here is Red getting his drink from the bird bath.
Red is an alley cat that my mil took in. He is the gentlelest of cats.
we have mice and Red thinks of them as friends.
There is a stray kitten on the property...Red takes care of him.