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Work At Home Mom Chat #2-- with Susie and Melissa of Diaper Decisions
11/21/05

10 mamas in attendance

20:57:11 host_Susie OFFICIAL START OF THE WAHM CHAT! WELCOME! MY NAME IS Susie AND I AM YOUR HOSTESS TODAY! THIS CHAT IS TRANSCRIPTED AND POSTED ON THE SUNDAY FOLLOWING THIS CHAT...PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN POSTING TO THIS CHAT. THANK YOU! :)
20:57:15 host_Susie k there!
20:57:19 host_Susie so how are yall today?
20:57:51 host_Susie anybody here?
21:00:48 host_melissa Hi everyone!
21:01:04 host_Susie hi melissa :)
21:01:09 Jodi hi ladies
21:01:09 Webmama_Tina hiya!
21:01:12 host_melissa Hi Suse :)
21:01:20 host_melissa So first off, what is everyone's business?
21:01:20 host_Susie hi tina and jodi!
21:01:44 Webmama_Tina um, this one, LOL!!!
21:01:48 host_melissa I own Diaper Decisions with Susie, Susie owns Lucy Luvs and just recently acquired Jewels of Denial
21:01:55 host_melissa LOL Tina :)
21:02:16 Jodi I am an Ind. Consultant with Usborne Books at Home ( a Direct Sales company)
21:02:28 Webmama_Tina i also have www.fresnofamily.com and www.tinasmagiccottage.com
21:02:44 host_melissa Everyone pretty happy where they are at in their Biz?  Wanting to expand?
21:02:51 host_Susie welllll
21:02:57 host_Susie just kidding LOL
21:03:06 host_Susie i am very happy with my bizzy biz'z
21:03:10 Jodi I am , I do mine part time right now
21:03:23 host_Susie what type of volume do you have jodi?
21:03:30 host_melissa We have  been open a year in August and have found that our best laid plans are taking quite a bit longer to go from dream to fruition..
21:03:58 host_Susie maybe we should intro us first, mel
21:04:06 Webmama_Tina i'm happy, just can't find time to do what i need to do!!!
21:04:07 host_melissa Go ahead
21:04:13 host_Susie i will go first... i am susie, mom to 3, wife to adan
21:04:16 host_Susie we are military
21:04:18 Jodi what do you mean susie?
21:04:20 Webmama_Tina very hard with 3 biz's and a 4mo and a 5yo
21:04:28 host_melissa Yeah I talked Susie into doing a jewel" called "I have enough hours in the day!""
21:04:57 host_Susie and i own lucy luvs, jewels of denial, and co-own diaper decisions.  I moderate the diaper hunt... and have been in business for myself for nearly 2 years now
21:05:06 host_Susie k your turn melissa
21:05:41 host_melissa Okay I am Melissa, I am Mom to 4 right now, expecting #5 in June, and also in the process of adopting my two nieces.  We live in New Mexico and just recently got out of the military.  My only business is Diaper Decisions, which keeps my *mind* occupied to a point I couldn't handle anything else :)
21:05:58 host_melissa I spend too much time online too LOL
21:06:07 host_Susie :D
21:06:10 Jodi hehe
21:06:21 Webmama_Tina met three
21:06:23 Webmama_Tina i mean
21:06:25 host_melissa You know Susie is in the same boat having more than one and she came up with something to give each biz attention
21:06:28 host_Susie okay so what is everyone finding as their biggest challenge in operating a business
21:06:29 Webmama_Tina me three (me too)
21:06:32 Webmama_Tina too much time online
21:07:08 host_melissa I think Jen is gonna say local people sucking, right Jen??
21:07:55 host_Susie well my biggest challenge is finding time to actually pay attention to each business
21:07:55 rooster4381 i am a mother of 3 boys, owner Hold Me Close baby carriers, homebirth doula
21:08:16 host_Susie hi rooster4381!
21:08:16 krizzy2003 hi
21:08:21 Webmama_Tina i second that susie!!!
21:08:39 rooster4381 hello, my name is jen so it is easier to type
21:08:41 host_Susie i find myself constanty distracted so if i am working on lucy luvs i am thinking about the other LOL
21:08:47 host_Susie :) jen :)
21:08:48 Webmama_Tina right now mommy chats gets my primary attention because its the most lucrative and it isn't really something i can put off and the other 2 i can
21:09:00 Webmama_Tina i have to stay on top of things or things fizzle
21:09:06 host_melissa Susie has a problem that if she puts of DD I will beat her up LOL
21:09:06 Jodi hi Jen and Krizzy
21:09:24 host_Susie what i have done is set up a schedule that i work on dd on mondays, ll on tuesdays etc.
21:09:32 Webmama_Tina lol melissa
21:09:36 Webmama_Tina i should probably have a partner
21:09:40 Webmama_Tina i have a sidekick :)
21:09:42 host_Susie and it has worked out pretty well... well it works great when i am doing the diaper hunt stuff LOL
21:09:58 Webmama_Tina she helps me out, but not as much as i need because she's due to have a baby any second
21:10:01 host_Susie sidekicks are nice :)
21:10:11 host_Susie do they have a cool side kick name like chatgirl?
21:10:25 Webmama_Tina yeah, my right hand mama""
21:10:27 host_melissa The Diaper Hunt is a huge undertaking..kind of like giving birth LOL, you didn't knw what you were getting into when uh..making the baby and then your stuck with having to go through the birth
21:10:30 Webmama_Tina lol
21:10:37 host_Susie lol oh yeah
21:10:47 Jodi lol
21:10:48 abs559 :))
21:11:13 abs559 lol
21:11:14 host_Susie at least once you do it (give birth) you know what to expect the next time LOL
21:11:19 host_melissa Here's how our business works...I call Susie and say I have this idea..how bout?" She says "cool" and then gets to work on fleshing it out while I sit back and wonder how the heck she does half of what she does"
21:11:40 host_Susie LOL melissa is the big thinker :) i do the dirty details
21:11:43 host_melissa Then she gives me the grunt boring work, that I actually really love to do...so it works well
21:11:48 host_Susie LOL
21:11:49 Webmama_Tina susie i need to do a schedule like you...my problem is that i set schedules and always peter out
21:12:08 host_Susie yeah... i also homeschool so it set it in a prominant place
21:12:16 host_melissa I hate schedules too, but if I know i just have to do one thing on Mondays, wihtout assigning a time I do well
21:12:30 Jodi same here tina.. not great at sticking with a schedule
21:12:32 host_melissa My family is too crazy right now to be too strict
21:12:39 host_Susie and then i have to do it... i am flexible though... so if we have a cool playdate or something ocme up.. i don't kill myself over it
21:13:07 host_Susie i think that once you do it for a month.. it becomes habit
21:13:10 host_melissa Kind of like a diet, sticking to for the most part, but never passing up your favorite desert if it presents itself to you ha!
21:13:13 host_Susie so i try everything for a month
21:13:22 Jodi thats one thing homeschooling teaches us isn't it susie.. to be flexible LOL
21:13:37 Webmama_Tina that's what they say
21:13:42 Webmama_Tina but darned if i can do it for a month
21:13:45 host_Susie oh yeah... if i could just figure out what curriculum would work for the oldest boy
21:13:46 host_melissa I read a cool illustartion the other day
21:14:02 host_Susie LOL yeah it sucks.. for me the hardest thing is getting up in the am
21:14:14 host_melissa It said to take a glass jar and have your kiddos fill it with sand
21:14:28 host_melissa Then have them try to put in three or four walnuts into the jar...they won't fit
21:14:34 host_Susie but after a month.. of dragging my a$$ outta bed then i just wake up and its not hard
21:14:42 host_melissa Then have them re-do by putting in the walnuts first, and THEN pouring the sand in
21:14:49 Webmama_Tina i have no problem in the am...have a baby that gets me up, lol!
21:14:56 host_Susie so i am doing a gradual plan... at first i woke up at 8:30 instead of 99
21:15:00 host_melissa Point being that if we take the time to get the big things out of the way, the fillers wont monopolize our time
21:15:00 host_Susie 9:00 i mean
21:15:07 host_Susie and now i am up to 7:30
21:15:15 host_Susie so i say do a gradual schedule
21:15:31 host_Susie LOL can yall figure it out with us both talking at the same time? LOL
21:15:38 host_melissa sorry LOL
21:15:39 Webmama_Tina good illustration
21:15:48 host_Susie LOL no sorry... we both are good talkers LOL
21:15:57 host_melissa It's really true, if I don't turn on the puter until I have my biggies done, I magically get those thigns done
21:16:01 host_Susie yeah i hate waking up and my kids sleep so it was awful
21:16:06 Webmama_Tina i'm following fine :)
21:16:11 host_melissa if I turn it on too soon, it takes so much of my time
21:16:15 host_Susie and if we got up at 9 then nothing got done at all
21:16:28 Webmama_Tina you know what melissa, that's actually a good idea i may just have to try'