In March 2015, one month before I was going to have our first baby my husbands employer started to struggle. Rumor of layoffs kept popping up left and right and immediately all of the employees pay was cut by 1/3. Not super comforting when next month you are supposed to start living on one income!

It had always been my dream to stay at home with my little ones and all the sudden that was seeming far away. 

I frantically started searching for ways to work from home, but all I could find were customer service jobs at $10/hour and I still would have to get a babysitter. After a couple months of defeat I took matters into my own hands and decided that I would create my own business and work for myself. 

Eventually, in that first year as a stay-at-home mom I built three businesses to help keeps our family afloat. 

As more of my husband’s coworkers started to hear about what I was doing with the businesses their wives started to ask me for advice and help and starting their own!

One night I was writing up a long word document about one of the businesses I was running (that word doc eventually turned into this blog post) to give to one of the other wives when all of the sudden it dawned on me. If there were this many women close to home that needed help, imagine how many more I could help if I could take this online…and all the sudden Moms Make Cents was born.