Making money while SAHM??

Brooke • Young mama to sweet Salem Rayne 🌈🌙🤍

Okay so I just wanted to jump on here and ask for some advice (like I normally do 🤣) about ways to make money while actively being a stay at home mom. My daughter has a few medical problems and many many doctors appointments, nearly one every week. Working a full time job or even part time isn’t going to work. I’ve tried, but the expense of paying for someone to watch her is insane. The only daycare that I’ve found that would be willing to work around her problems is 45 minutes away, and $125 a week. Our state’s guidelines for state funded child care is that I have to at least be working 20 hours a week and have 3 paystubs. I went and talked to this really kind lady at my towns resource center, and I said “so in order for me to qualify to get someone to watch my kid while I work I already have to be working?” And she said that the system is really fucked.. and I have to agree. I’ve been working full time since I graduated high school in 2019 and even worked through college, so this is so strange to me to not be working. My boyfriend has a well paying job but we’re still struggling, so it only makes sense for me to get some sort of income to at least get my bank account out of the negatives and get my daughters medical bills paid for. I’ve thought about opening an Etsy shop, but I have no idea where to start. 🤣 I’m just so used to working my ass off and now I’m expected to just take care of my little one, but I feel so helpless and really useless. I know parenting itself is its own full time job, but I wish I could do more for my family income-wise.

Any tips?? I’ve heard about a lot of online jobs, but I have no idea which ones are legit, even if they’re low-paying. I miss working!!