One of my favorite days of the week is Monday. It’s the start of the week and usually one of our busiest days. I love to be busy and enjoy talking with as many web hosting clients as we can.

My day usually starts at 5:15am and by 8am I am in the office after the gym and checking my emails. I will usually get support calls before 8am while at the gym. No problem, I can jump off the treadmill and take the call using Ovaleye VoIP and my Bria soft phone!

The office is usually  jumping hearing from clients, clearing emails out of my inbox and hopefully tweeting. I always check out who has looked at our website and who follows us on Twitter Facebook. I jump on Facetime with Jenn, who is my partner (and daughter), and my grandson to plan when we all meet.

My grandson time on Monday makes the first day of the week the best day! I love this time with him. I get him all to myself! We play games, run, and he wears me out! Jenn, his mom, works in the office while I play.

After dinner with Grammy & Grampy my grandson goes home with his daddy and my daughter and I with my husband (partner and producer) record SOHO Insights for Ovaleye.tv and have a blast talking about the trends, services, and products for the small office, home office lifestyle.

To top the day off Jenn and I visit my mother-in-law (her Grandma) and we watch Dancing with the Stars or a fun movie and drink wine!

Monday is a good day!

Kathy K Nelson – Chief Decision Maker at Ovaleye.com

My husband and I will celebrate our 30th Anniversary November 21st.  Time has flown by too fast! We met when I was 15 so I have known him more than 30 years. We were both attending summer camp in Santa Barbara. He was our high school band Drum Major and I was a tall flag girl.  We were married Nov 21st, 1981.  We have two great kids, a perfect son-in-law and the cutest grandson. My mother-in-law has lived with us in an apartment above our garage for 11 years now.  Our son just moved out and we are now empty nesters

Our theme throughout our marriage I would say is we haven’t been afraid to take chances.  Our 30th year will probably be one of our most memorable years.  We have really focused on what we love to do and what means the most to us. Here is to many more great years with Tracy Nelson!

Our Family

Our favorite past time- boating!

Motorcycle riding on Orcas Island.

Our favorite place to relax

Running a business when you are a mom is fun and exciting each and everyday.   I have said in earlier posts, I wish I had a blog to connect with others back when I was raising our kids before the Internet.  Watching my daughter juggle her business tasks with a 9 month old baby can be entertaining.  Before my grandson turned 9 months we could keep him busy in the office while making calls.  Not sure it works so well now with his ability to scream as loud as he can at any given moment.  He never sits too long in the office so this is also a challenge.  Mommy helpers can really come in handy!

I am hoping all mothers that have a small office home office lifestyle take a moment and celebrate the fact they can enjoy both worlds.  It was always a dream of mine to build a business in my home office while raising our family.

My reasons to celebrate with all the at home mothers in business:

1. FREEDOM to be at home with the kids

2. Tools available now to run a successful business from their home office

3. Flexibility to enjoy the family time

4. Building communities and support online

5.  Savings on commute time, career clothes and daycare

I sat with a good friend last night who has two young kids.  It was hard to start a family for her so she is in no hurry to be away from her kids.  She is very excited to be getting her feet wet this month online.  Investing in a little “ME” time and enjoying her passion of writing will get her started in her vision of owning her own business from her home office.

My celebration is HUGE this year.  I finally realized I made my dream come true.  My daughter will be celebrating her first Mother’s Day.   Our company has made it possible for her to stay home with her baby and enjoy the time together.  Maybe not the screaming

The celebrating started with a trip to Disneyland with our kids, son in law and mother in law.

Happy Mothers Day!

Kathy K Nelson – Chief Decision Maker at Ovaleye.com who provides all mom’s a little freedom to do what they want online.

Our first business was called Main Street Music.  My husband and I opened our store in our hometown May 1999.  After a year of online research and planning I opened with much success!  Our kids were in high school so this was a perfect family business.  We offered all sorts of music for our small town.  Main Street Music offered  Karoke nights, live bands, sponsored events, and sold guitars in our little store.

Shortly after we opened, all my favorite customers would come in and show me their collection of “burned cds”.  Many local cd stores closed including ours shortly after Napster caught on.  Our supplier went online and so did Main Street Music. We closed the shop in August 2001 and December 2001 our first customer downloaded a song on  mainstreetmusic.com website.  As our website grew attention all over the US we added to our database, shopping cart and bought our own server. Mainstreetmusic.com started many ads using Google Ads and the traffic crashed our website so another server was bought.  December 2002 we had 600,000 visits.

I was the only customer service rep during this time.  I had a blast talking with soldiers trying to find karaoke music, artists trying to get noticed by record companies, and many Countries looking for music. Lots of our customers were trying to figure out how to download music at that time.  Mainstreetmusic.com was ready to expand in January 2003 when Walmart bought our supplier.  Since we had such a great deal with our supplier we were not able to afford another supplier.  So we closed Mainstreetmusic.com for the last time.

Our lesson from mainstreetmusic.com would be not to rely on someone else for your products.  It can be taken away within minutes of your dream.  This really fun experience gave us our next step to where we are now.  Ovaleye.com owned and operated by our family and all of our servers and products are OURS!

Follow your dream!

I work with my daughter and husband daily. I enjoy every minute with them. I also have a son that I am very proud of.   So.. I would like to dedicate a blog post to Kenny since I spend many days talking with him on skype (the best way to communicate long distant) or cellphone as he walks from class to class. Our son Kenny lives in Tucson until December 2010.  His major is Near Eastern Studies and his Minor is Arabic. He follows the Language and Culture track of NES and study dialect, Modern Standard Arabic, and Political Economy. Do I understand all of what he does, no… What his family does understand is his passion for this and we are all very happy he enjoys it.

Kenny has traveled to Egypt twice by himself. Once to volunteer and the other time to study Arabic. He will apply to the Peace Corps soon and then hopefully move closer to his family. A mom can hope…

Kenny - Egypt

This is the reason I am part owner of Ovaleye.  So I can work with my family.  My little community is part of why I also own Ovaleye.  My community makes it easy to start a business and network.  I love to get out and talk amongst my community.  I enjoy listening to their stories and visiting their businesses.  Some of my first clients are my family and part of my community.  So I am very grateful and happy I live in a small community near Seattle Washington.

Ovaleye is a family owned business.  Family meaning my husband and daughter.  Our cousin works with us and has been one of my mentors when I first started Ovaleye. I now work with community members that I call part of our Ovaleye family also. The two mix perfectly. I am a very lucky business owner/ wife/mother.