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WAHM Wednesday: What Are Your Summer Plans?

June 6th, 2007 · 12 Comments

I was thinking about this last night. As I see it there are three options that WAHMs can take with their home businesses during the summer:

  • Business as usual
  • Gear up
  • Slack off

Business as Usual

This is the category that I like to count myself in. While it can be more challenging to work with children from school, I really don’t plan on slowing my writing business down. I’ll continue to juggle the jobs and the kids. An exception is a family vacation that I’ll take later this summer. 

Gear Up

Some WAHMs are students who have the summer off from school. For them, summer can be their greatest time of productivity. They no longer have classes and can accept a lot more work. (I’ve definitely already noticed this trend on some blogs that I follow that I thought had gone dormant.)

Slack Off

For these WAHMs, summer is solely for fun and family. They slow their businesses way down and plan several long family vacations. Summer, for them, can be a time of family bonding. (I admit it, sometimes this option sounds really good to me, my budget just can’t take it.)

How about you? What are your summer plans? 

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12 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mihaela Lica // Jun 6, 2007 at

    What a nice entry! To be honest, I haven’t thought about it… I think I’ll have to get back on this one, once I know more.
    One thing is sure: work, work, work!

  • 2 Lisa // Jun 6, 2007 at

    Hmm…well, we were planning on going to Disney World, but then decided to buy a home instead. We are looking to move during the month of July, so I don’t foresee a whole lot of relaxing time in our near future. I have also gotten a couple steady writing clients, and hope to continue blogging on a regular basis, so in Migs words, I see a whole lot of “work, work, work!” for my summer too!

    Thanks for another great post, Laura! 🙂

  • 3 Meena // Jun 6, 2007 at

    My plans for summer? Why, other tha lots of querying, writing and working on my book, a gazzilion BBQ afternoons as well! Thanks for the post, it certainly cheered up my dull afternoon. 🙂

  • 4 Melissa R. Garrett // Jun 6, 2007 at

    For us, it’s business as usual. Unfortunately our budget can’t accomodate vacations, either, but at least my husband will have “vacation” in July. We plan to stay around the house, play with the kids, tackle a few projects, and generally just enjoy each other’s company.

  • 5 Mihaela Lica // Jun 6, 2007 at

    Laura, don’t forget that picture… you know… 🙂

  • 6 Laura // Jun 6, 2007 at

    Hi Mihaela! We’re going to a baseball game later — so it will probably be tomorrow for the photo.

    Hi Lisa! You’re right, moving is a lot of work. We’re also gearing up to move, but it will probably be more like October before it actually happens.

    Welcome Meena! I’m glad I cheered up your dull afternoon. A gazzilion afternoons of BBQ sounds fun!

  • 7 Jeanne Dininni // Jun 7, 2007 at

    Hi, Laura!

    I’ll be taking a summer job as a clinician (fancy name for “tutor”) for Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, which will keep me quite busy; but I’ll still be doing as much writing as possible. I expect that the job will be very rewarding.

    At the same time, I’ll need to develop superior time management skills in order to keep up with my writing projects! Hopefully, I’ll be able to keep my blog regularly updated and make some freelance article sales, in addition to writing the weekly sermon summary/discussion sheet that I prepare for the small groups at my church. This should be a fascinating summer!

    Thanks for a great post!
    Jeanne

  • 8 laura // Jun 7, 2007 at

    Jeanne,

    I’m glad that you’ll be keeping up with your blogging. I enjoy reading your posts.

  • 9 Matt Keegan // Jun 8, 2007 at

    Laura, it will be pretty much business as usual for me, but a different pace for my wife and boys.

    With school now out, everyone will be heading to the pool and meeting up with friends. When it gets too noisy here, I’ll be running to the new branch of the public library that has WI-FI access.

  • 10 Laura // Jun 9, 2007 at

    Hi Matt!

    I used the library WI-FI when my Internet was down a few months ago. It’s definitely do-able.

    Happy Summer!!

  • 11 Heather // Jun 19, 2007 at

    Great Post, it’s something I’ve been contemplating alot the last few weeks. I want to keep up with my blog, but also realize that summer does die down significantly and I like to slack off and go camping with my kids.

    So for me it will kind of be a combination of all three. I will keep up with what I’m doing but on kind of a “light” version. I will spend a good amount of time camping with my family and friends, and I will be working on some info products at the lake when I don’t have an Internet connection.

    Cheers,
    Heather

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