New Year’s Resolutions for Stay-at-Home Moms
As stay-at-home moms, the opportunities to earn income while spending time with your kids can be few and far between. But what if there was a way to spend more time with your kids and achieve your financial goals at the same time?
As a busy, stay-at-home mom to three girls, I used to cringe when people asked me what my New Year’s resolutions were.
Usually, seconds before being asked this question, I would be feeling pretty proud of myself. I mean… I kept everyone alive for another year, I successfully navigated another year of birthday parties, growth milestones and hormones (looking at you, girl moms). I put on Thanksgiving, made sure everyone’s Christmas lists made it to Santa… and made sure Santa “read them” and put all the right presents under the Christmas tree.
I’ve led tradition after tradition so that my girls’ will always have good answers to the ‘what are your family traditions’ question. I’ve navigated 34,567,890 emotional break-downs (mine and the childrens’), kept afloat at home, various volunteer commitments and tried to show my face every once in a while at school. All in all, by the time December 26th would come around, I was ready for a break before doing it ALL OVER AGAIN.
But just as I would get ready to take that deep, satisfied, I-am-a-super-mom breath… there it would come. THE QUESTION. It was always (most likely) a well-intentioned question, but ”what are your New Year’s resolutions?” was interpreted by my spinning mom brain as:
“What balls did you drop last year that you will try not to drop this year and in trying not to drop those balls will definitely head closer to an all-out nervous breakdown?”
Anyone else?!?
This year, I have a New Year’s resolution hack for all of the stay-at-home-moms out there who are holding everything together (oh - and who are also supposed to figure out how to find time for self-care, meditation, baking, crafting and keeping up with the Gen Z styles). Commit yourself in 2023 to:
Spending more quality time with your kids
Earning/saving more money
Did I lose you? Are you thinking ‘Quality time?! Save money? Are you serious?? I am with my kids all the time and basically bleeding money.” Bear with me. You can take on both of these ‘resolutions’ AND find more time for yourself, connect with your community and achieve better mental health for you and your kids.
Don’t buy it? Let me share examples of two moms who are pulling this off today by joining our community at June Care. June Care connects parents who are looking for childcare with stay-at-home parents (like you!) who can care for their kids and get PAID while doing so.
These moms are home with their kids, spending quality time with their children, but are also opening up their homes 2-3 times per week to children from a local, like-minded family to build new friendships for themselves and their kids and earn more income while doing so. Plus we ALL know it’s often easier to watch your own children when there are other playmates around to be the lava monster (IYKYK). ;)
First, meet Emilie.
Emilie lives in Davis, Calif. with her husband and three kids who are 3, 8 and 13 years old. She LOVES babies and spending time outdoors, and majored in Child Development.
Emilie loves to host with June Care because it checks all the boxes:
✅ I get to be with my kids
✅ I can host when it works for our family’s schedule
✅ The extra income allows me to say “yes” to a few things I love like tennis lessons, going out for coffee, attending a workout class with friends, etc.
✅ I LOVE kids including babies and toddlers. Hosting with June Care gives me that baby fix that I love!
✅ My kids love having other “friends” over for a playdate
To learn more about Emilie, check out her full profile.
Next, meet Albina.
Albina lives in Los Altos, Calif. and loves to go on walks and visit parks, libraries and playgrounds when she hosts playdates. She has been hosting for more than a year and loves the community that June Care creates.
According to Albina, “June Care is all about community and connecting parents with each other who eventually become like family. It is like having a family member in the neighborhood who can help you with your kids when you need it!”
Like many other June Care hosts, Albina has prior experience as a teacher and a nanny and she is CPR certified. To learn more about Albina, you can view her full profile here.
June Care host, Albina, hosting a recent playdate in Los Altos, Calif.
Emilie and Albina are opening up their homes a few times each week to other families and in doing so, both say that they believe they are better parents and having more fun being at home with their kids.
Not to mention, the financial independence that hosting with June Care allows them to have. Whether you’re looking to replace full or part-time income, save more money, or earn some extra money to spend on self-care such as a well-deserved massage, workout class or shopping trip, June Care can help you achieve your financial goals in the New Year. You set your own schedule and hourly rate and can work as little or as often as you like. It’s all on your terms with no contract required.
So there you have it ladies. Do you want this year to be different without having to pile more onto your plate? Try hosting with June Care. Open up your home a few times a week in support of other moms in your neighborhood; and in return, you find your village, your community AND check the box on some lofty New Year’s Resolutions.
Gretchen Salyer is the founder and CEO of The June Care Company. She is a former full-time working mom, full time stay-at-home mom and now a full time start-up from home mom.
