Single mom needs advice on keeping herself busy!!!?

Try crafts. Even if you don't necessarily make any money on them you could save money at holidays by giving them as gifts.

You could type reports for college students or businesses.

You could start scrapbooking as a hobbie and if you're good, you could run it as a business doing it for others.

You could teach yourself to knit

You could take an online course

You could bake or cook meals so you don't have to do it right at suppertime.

You could exercise.

There's nothing wrong with having a friend over some evenings to have a drink, watch a movie. I have a single mom friend (I'm a single mom too) and that used to be our thing, every Friday night we would rent movies and get snacks and hang out at her house.

Hire a babysitter once in awhile and meet a friend for a late dinner. You could baby sit an older child (that won't make too much noise and keep your baby up.

I don't know, my kids go to bed at 8:30-9 and I love my shows, I PVR (tivo) all my shows so I can fast forward through commercials. By the time I watch a show or 2, make their lunches for tomorrow, do some laundry, clean up from dinnner, it's time for me to go to bed. I also go on this site, play free online games like bookworm or bejeweled, talk to friends on the phone, or read a book when I'm bored and can't leave the house.

If you are both working really hard then why are you still living with his mother? You need to get some more schooling or a different job or something so the two of you can afford to live somewhere else. You need to make it clear that your marriage needs to be a higher priority that his mother's chores. You are not a piece of furniture and your deserve to be a priority --- doesn't mean he can't love and help his mother but it does mean that the woman he loves can't be waking around feeling like a piece of furniture....this is not OK and he can't just take the attitude that you need to get over it. Either he redefines what his role as the husband is or you need to leave and find someone that values you. Don't just accept this situation --- do something about it or it will not change.

I started back to school I am going through a local community college and the classes I'm taking right now are online I do them at night (just got done) after the kids are in bed. I'm going to eventaully get my master or phd in psychology.

You might want to try working out to.

Take the baby to the park during the day go for walks.

THere have been some people that make money blogging maybe you could do that.

Im in the same exact situation as you. My husbands car broke down so he has been driving mine which leaves me without transportation. So Im a yahoo answers junkie :) I would love to find a work from home job but I have yet to found nay that are legit. SO if the weather permits we go for walks and to the park, I work on his scrapbook(my son is 15 months old) and I do housework(sigh). I go crazy some days when he is asleep i watch the clock and wait for his dad to come home. Thank god for Yahoo Answers and Facebook lol.

Reading books is a great alternative to watching tv or facebook. Also, try writing. It doesn't have to be anything specific but it always makes me feel better. Plus, if you do write something productive, you can always make money off of it!