I have not kept up with working at home since before I had my son on 1/30/2008.  Being pregnant and tired took its toll and then when he was born he did not sleep at all.  He still doesn't.  No naps and doesn't sleep until I sleep with him.  So time to myself and time to work have been almost nonexistent.  I also, in September, decided to get back into school to finish my degree.  And my 4 year old is in preschool now, and soccer, and dance.  You parents out there probably know the drill.

So I have been keeping up the hosting as much as I can on untroddenroad just so that the information already on there (and there is a lot of it!) would stay available to everyone.  However, I lost my domain name.  I was a few days late in trying to renew it and Bravenet will not allow me to buy it back without a $75 fee on top of the regular price.  I simply don't have it.  (I told you working form home won't make you rich! lol) They offered to waive the fee if I paid for a year of hosting in full for $99 but if I don't have an extra $75, I certaily don't have an extra $99.  Times are tough all around so I don't blame them for trying.  I will try to snag my domain back as soon as it gets back on the market.  In the meantime I am going to try to move my site to untroddenroad.org so watch for that.  But it will take time to move all the pages.  I really did put a lot of information on that site and the amount of data is ridculous (in a good way)!  But it's a good resource for people wanting to work from home.  There is an option for everyone and there are plenty of employers and opportunities to choose from.  I find myself going back and using it myself when I need to find something to do to make me money and fit my schedule.

One good thing I have to share is that even though I have not had time to work at all for almost a year, I am still making residual income from a number of programs and ads placed on websites.  So if you put the work in it really does pay off for you in the long run.  It's not making me rich but when I need $20 or $50 i wind up getting it from some place!

For right now you can check out two of my blogs for information:

Making Ends Meet (from home) is a blog I created to share informaiton on saving money, obtaining free products, and working from home.  I am tranferring all the information and employer lists from untroddenroad to this blog.  Bravenet is touch and go with linking right now but the address is http://www.cashpad.blogspot.com

Making Money From Home- As I receive checks from different places or find new and different opportunities I post them on this blog.  There is some information overlap between the two blogs as you can imagine but not too much.  The address is http://www.christenwypy.blogspot.com

I am hopeful our economy is going to turn around.  And until then at least we have ways to earn some extra money (or a full time income) without leaving our families and homes.  For that, I feel very blessed.

Peace and Love!

(My babies Abby and Christopher)

If you think the work I have done in researching and typing up all the work at home info is worth anything please donate so I can get the site back up faster.  Thanks!