Julie Cole is one of the founding mom entrepreneurs behind Mabel's Labels Inc and is the proud mother of five (although she's expecting #6!).
Julie writes about about the daily drama of running a small business from home, kids, family, all that good stuff! Julie has more children and more energy than anyone we know!
Survive the Holiday Season
We all know that the life of a mama is a hectic one — throw a holiday season into the mix and life can become downright insane. December often blurs into a marathon of office functions, school concerts, holiday recitals, parties, decorating, baking, shopping, entertaining and feeding people. In my household there are six little people, all with single digit ages. As a matter of necessity, I’ve devised a few tricks to get me through the fa-la-la without having to drown myself in egg nog.
I have this friend Steve who was recently on a flight. Across the aisle was a new mama with her babe and a very elderly man, who from here on in shall be called ‘old dude’.
As the airplane was taking off, mama started breastfeeding babe. As any travelling mama knows, it’s good if you can get babe to feed on the way up and the way down to relieve any ear pain due to changing air pressure.
As the mama of six children aged newborn to nine, I clearly run a busy household. With back-to-school season upon us, many mamas have been looking to me for advice on how to deal with the stress and anxiety of getting everyone ready and out the door on time in the morning.
Mother’s Day is the one day every year that we are all expected to take a few moments to appreciate the fine women who keep this world turning. Besides patting myself on the back, I’m one of the lucky mamas who can thank my own mother - whose positive attributes are too many to attempt listing. Have the rest of you noticed that once you have your own children, you learn to treasure your mother’s new role as the mama’s mother?
I have been known to offer advice and mentor would be mom entrepreneurs.
Lately there have been countless e-mails making their way into my inbox with messages
from would be mom entrepreneurs asking the same question...
We all know that the life of a mama is a hectic one — throw a holiday season into the mix and life can become downright insane. December often blurs into a marathon of office functions, school concerts, holiday recitals, parties, decorating, baking, shopping, entertaining and feeding people. In my household there are six little people, all with single digit ages. As a matter of necessity, I’ve devised a few tricks to get me through the fa-la-la without having to drown myself in egg nog.
I have this friend Steve who was recently on a flight. Across the aisle was a new mama with her babe and a very elderly man, who from here on in shall be called ‘old dude’.
