A Day in the Life of a SOHO Wife

October 11, 2010

Quick precursor to those who don’t know me. I am a new mom; my little boy Donogh is all of 10 weeks old. I am part owner of a web hosting company, Ovaleye (along with my parents) and the Director of Young Female Entrepreneurs, a business incubator and support group for women in their 20s [...]

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What do you do?….

October 6, 2010

That is a good question. I am part owner of a company that hosts websites (Ovaleye); it’s not something that people hear of everyday and it’s not exactly something I do. I’m building a business, not necessarily trading hours for dollars, creating something that provides a service that many people don’t understand on face value, [...]

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Running the Vacuum in 2010

September 21, 2010

Little Boy Donogh has been up to some amazing things as of late. He will be 2 months old on Friday and he has now found his thumb- seriously found his thumb. I was putting outfit 1 of 4 (so far) on him this morning and he held his hand up, was looking at it [...]

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Hands Free Mom Tools: Dragon Dictation

September 13, 2010

One thing I found about being a new mom is that I’m rarely with both hands available at a time. Right now I am holding my my baby with my iPhone next to me. I have an earbud in that is micd and am talking into my new favorite app, Dragon Dictation, to write this [...]

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1 Month of Baby

August 30, 2010
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My beautiful baby boy was born 4 weeks ago from yesterday at 11:55 PM. Seeing as it has been 4 weeks (wow, time goes by so fast now!) I wanted to checkin and do a fast review of what I have begun to realize after being a small office/home office wife, mom, and entrepreneur. 1. [...]

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How to Create a Company Handbook

July 22, 2010
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I wrote a blog post Monday on the Ovaleye blog over at ovaleye.com/blog about getting ready for baby in our business. I am now down to 3 days to my due date and feel pretty confident about having the business to a point where I can make being a mom my number one priority for [...]

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Join Me in “Ending Summer Hunger”

June 18, 2010
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As you may or may not know I am growing our family web hosting business, Ovaleye, in 2010 and in doing so am active in Young Female Entrepreneurs, an organization of other professional, young women like myself. As a group we have decided that we are getting involved with Hopelink’s ‘End Summer Hunger’ campaign and [...]

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Our New Home Office Layout

May 25, 2010
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The first phase of the SOHOWife home office redecorating project. Outlines adding a double desk, new paint, adding a bed, and creating space for baby.

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Redecorating my Home Office

May 5, 2010

This weekend I was staying at a hotel on the Eastside that provided one of my favorite magazines in our room, 425, a local lifestyle magazine that features restaurants, boutiques, and other stories from my local area. This was particularly fun for me this time in opening it, because I have a short blurb in [...]

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Take our Daughters and Sons to Work 2010

April 20, 2010
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Last year I wrote (not very elequently) on the history of Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, including a clip from the sitcom The Office. In the clip the character Kevin shows his fiance’s daughter around his cubicle. Like Kevin in the clip, the entire episode is a mix of activities that have [...]

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