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About One Mom's Guide
I'm Casey Albright — former preschool teacher, now a stay-at-home mom of two little ones (three and eighteen months) in the Midwest. When I left the classroom, I thought the hard part of staying home would be missing work. It wasn't. The hard part was that nobody hands you a lesson plan for a Tuesday that starts at 5:50am and contains nine unstructured hours with people who nap on a schedule only they can see.
One Mom's Guide is the lesson plan I built instead — except it isn't really a plan, and that's the whole philosophy. We run on rhythms, not schedules: anchor blocks like the after-breakfast reset, the naptime hour, and the 4pm stretch, with room to breathe between them. A schedule breaks the first time a nap runs short; a rhythm just bends. Every post here plugs into that same day — what to do in the blocks, and how the whole thing runs on one income.
Here's what's on the board: daily rhythms for the shape of the day itself (start with a realistic stay-at-home-mom schedule), toddler play for filling the morning block without a Pinterest degree, one-income life for the honest money math of choosing to stay home, mom life for the staying-a-person part, and earn from home for naptime income that isn't an MLM pitch.
What you won't find: minute-by-minute perfect schedules, hustle-culture pressure, martyrdom, or pretending the 4pm stretch isn't long. I love this job AND I find it hard. Both are true, and this site is built for both.
If you're new, start with building your day around naps — it's the load-bearing idea behind everything else here.
A note on affiliate links: some posts contain affiliate links — if you buy through one, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend things that have survived actual use in this actual house.