Homeschooling for 3

... and very cute too! One thing that I like about working from home is that my very able husband is able to step in and help out when things get crazy for me. This past week I've been sick with a very stubborn cold. Speaking was very difficult because of my sore throat, so Super Partner jumped in and made my research phone calls for me while I worked on getting better. My girls (junior business partners) kept their little brother occupied so that I could rest while their daddy made the phone calls. And keeping Michael busy can be quite a challenge. But they met it solidly and quite creatively. I bet you didn't know that pillows can make wonderful stair sleds. I know I didn't until I saw it for myself. :-) Of all the place that I've worked before, I've never had such a supportive group of "co-workers" as I find in my own family. I just wanted to share my good fortune with the rest of you. Just another perk about working from home.

Today I received some news from my husband that brought to mind the words of Napoleon Hill. He tells us in his masterpiece "Think and Grow Rich" that "The prevalence of these fears (fear of poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love of someone, old age and death), as a curse to the world, runs in cycles. For almost six years, while the depression was on, we floundered in the cycle of FEAR OF Poverty." This sprang to mind as I listened to my husband describing the scene down at Goldman Sachs last night. He works for Williams Lea, a British outsourcing agency, and they've already laid off fifteen people with more to come. Yesterday, he found out when he arrived for the graveyard shift, Goldman Sachs laid off over 3,200 people. Why? Because they had a loss this last quarter -- the first loss since 1999! And because of this momentary downswing in their profits they've now left 3,200 people without jobs or hopes of even finding new jobs quickly because other bu...