As if being a parent isn't hard enough. The stress parents go through daily is enough to qualify us as super humans! I might say some things that a lot of men and woman will disagree with strongly but from my perspective and how I feel about being a mother and my place in society. I feel very strongly for the position I choose and what I support.

Before the sun even nears the horizon I am up making my partner coffee, packing his lunch and making sure he has a good start to the day. While drinking my coffee I check my comments and how much money I have made the previous day on HubPages while formulating in my mind what I am going to write about for the day and hopefully not getting side tracked on the forums.

At about 7:00 my kid wakes up, I get her dressed while finishing my coffee, making her breakfast, getting her teeth and hair brushed, and then cleaning the dishes. All the while trying to get her to stop asking for chocolate, trying to avoid a tantrum, finding a good time to get in the shower, bush my own teeth and hair, changing the dogs water and getting her some food. Sometimes I even have to make my dog breakfast.

From then I get my kid and my dog ready for a walk while searching for something to scoop the doo doo up with all the while both my dog and daughter are impatiently waiting for me at the door. We go out for our morning walk, when we get back I finish the laundry, pull something out for dinner and tell my kid to "kick dirt" and go play.

Then I come to HubPages and start writing my next hub between 10:00 am and noon, again hopefully not becoming side tracked by the forums. I search the internet for information just as I would for any other job, I map out the "feel" for it and get started.

While I would love to devote every moment of my life to my kid I also know that my partner needs help too. We are at a crazy time in life where it is a bit harder to make ends meet and I am very familiar with this at the moment. I would also like to be able to get something special for him because of all the hard work he does just for us and at the same time I need to fulfill my own desire to write, as I am a writer and be mother and homemaker. It would certainly be easy to just hire a babysitter and do a 9-5 which would leave me completely unfulfilled because what would I gain from it?

Some time away from my kid. Sure, I need that too sometimes but nonetheless she is my kid and I love to be in her presence and I love to cook and clean and go for walks and reading with my daughter, taking her out and also fulfilling my need to socialize in a "work" environment doing something that does make me feel good. While I don't make a lot of money... I am still working towards that $500.00+ a month goal but $200.00 is not bad if you ask me. I am not the bread winner in this house but I most certainly am the one with super human abilities.

I mean this in the best of ways.  While many of the HubPages authors make a heck of a lot more than I do and often times write on other sites, I actually only use HubPages because it is the one that has worked for me.  I know I could do more elsewhere but I don't think I would be as successful.  Plus, in all honesty.  Making money as an internet writer takes more time then you think.  You cannot expect to just write one thing and all the sudden you have all this money flowing in you don't know what to do with it. 

No, with nearly every hub I write, at a minimum I spend 8 hours.  Sometimes the hub doesn't pay off and other times it does.  It is at times hit and miss.  I do the keyword searches.  I dig for information, I look up credible sources, I read other hubs and articles on the internet.  I test the things I use and do the best I can to write well informed hubs to best of my knowledge and I get just as frustrated sometime just like you do at any other job.

I hear a lot of people say that I should get a real job and that I don't care enough about my child's well being because I chose to stay home and "play" on the internet.  Nope, sorry I do not "play" on the internet... sometimes I do but for the most part, I treat it as a job and I know that it is something most people can do.  Yet I know the difference between working hard and hardly working.

It has come to my attention that because HubPages is free there are a lot of spammers or low quality hubs being produces which significantly drives down the ranking of the site altogether. I definitely like to think I contribute to the success of the site as a whole and because I do believe it is the best site to work on and I am pretty dependent on the extra income every month, the last thing I want is for it to be downgraded because of the terrible writing being produced.

Again, for many on HubPages it is for fun and even I have fun but at the same time, nearly every single person comes with the idea that you will make some money. I certainly don't buy it when someone says that they have no intention of making money. If that was the case, there are other places where you can blog till your hearts content and negate spell check and or steal other peoples work and call it your own or spam for the purpose of directing traffic elsewhere.

But this is not the case because people come and they stay because HubPages is designed to be fun, easy and (in my opinion) give you a place in search engine traffic which you otherwise would not have gotten had it not been for the credibility and authenticity of many of its writers.

We need better writers. I wont say I am the best writer ever to grace the pages because I have read a wealth of authors who have topped my list as some of the best writers I have ever read. I wont say that I work sooo hard that I should be making $1000.00 a month because I do have other things to attend to. I will say that over time I was and am able to make money and I am still reaching for my goal because being a mom and wife is my number one job and I wouldn't trade it for the world! At the same time I wouldn't give up HubPages either.

Sometimes I get upset that a hub I thought was the best one eva didn't make the front page of Google like The HubPages Christmas Catalog or The Meade ETX 125 Telescope, but at the same time I feel very accomplished when about 10 of nearly 100 have. Yes, it seems like a lot of writing for just a few of them to reach the desired destination but that is what it takes to become a successful publisher.

It is a lot of work just like any other job. So if you decide that you want to give it a try then know it is something that takes time and patients and while I know that you can join and be a horrible writer, it wont get you anywhere. You also do not have to be an English Professor. All you have to do is be able to craft a sentence that is easily understood. Configure an article that flows in a understandable pattern with things that relate to the subject matter and of course use the spell check and perhaps write about something that people are looking for.

Some authors are successful being creative writers in their fields such as poetry and fictional stories which I can say I am actually jealous of them but I have a different niche and after I accepted what will work for me, I went with it and I am happy with it.

Now at noon, it's time to make some lunch, do the dishes, clean the house, play or read with my child and decide what is going to be for dinner, probably walk to the market to pick up some odds and ends for dinner etc...

As the story goes, Mom! Never let anyone tell you that just because you are a homemaker or stay at home mother that you are lazy or you don't do enough because in truth being a success at anything takes a lot of work, organizing your time, being patient and somewhere in between mustering up your next wind of energy to keep going because when the man of the house gets home, it time for round two... if you know I mean. *wink, wink* lol.

And this is from a mother who has it pretty easy compared to other mothers who also have to pick up or drop off their kids at school, take them to their after school activities, get them to do their homework, attend games or meetings with their kids teachers, dance recitals etc... Yip, I will be there soon enough but I am doing whatever I can right now to make sure that when I become this busy again after having gone through diaper changes, doctor visits, hourly feedings, cleaning up vomit and all the joys that come with a new born baby. I already have a platform because missing any part of my families lives would kill me especially knowing that it would be for people who care less about me than they do. They need me and I need them.

I wrote this in dedication to Lady Guinevere who is one busy lady!, Debbie. I love you Debbie, next time someone tells you that you aren't good enough and to get a "real" job, just know there are hundreds of woman behind you saying, "Go suck a lemon!" to anyone who thinks that being an internet writer is not a real job or that being a stay at home mom or homemaker is not a real job. I know at the end of the day I am just as exhausted as anyone. The difference between a "real" job and a real job is that we don't have that luxury of leaving it behind after you clock out. Thus, we have a real job and we can make money too!

So just keep writing! I know writing product reviews and doing keyword searches, and back linking and networking aren't the funnest part of the job but in the long run it pays off. I wish you the best and I always have ears when you need me.

There are several web based job opportunities that promise to make you a ton of money right away with minimal effort but stay away from MLM companies like Pre-Paid Legal or any company that makes you pay money upfront. In the real world, you don't pay to get work, you work to get paid. So check them out if you want, throw you money away too then come back and join HubPages.