cold hard (elusive) cash

You don’t make much as a stay-at-home-mom. I know magazines and statistics say that a SAHM is worth some crazy amount like $147000 a year, but there are no checks coming to me except for $5 a few times a week from my paid-blogging companies. SO, I’d love to find something more long term. Why can’t there be more actual work at home opportunities. You know, the kind that don’t require a payment of $10 for supplies so that I can make thousands or whatever. I’m reasonably educated, have a variety of marketable skills, but everyone wants to stick me in a cubicle away from my gorgeous son. My German sister-in-law gets a stipend from the government to stay home with her kids. I’m certainly not saying our government could even afford to pay out one more stipend, but it would be nice for our work to be valued in some way. Preferably a way that pays my bills and doesn’t require me to lick envelopes.