Self-Employed as a Single Mom

One might ask how hard is it to be Self Employed and make ends meet. One might even ponder at the response. "I have done it for 7 years with 2 little ones and I never know when I am going to be paid!" I am a Self-employed work from home mother of two little ones ages six and three. I own two companies that are strictly commission based. How does one do it? I will tell you, I have always dreamed of working for myself since the high school years and when the opportunity to stop sitting behind someone else's desk and making them rich entered my life I ran for the door. Not without thinking about it for many nights to come but with due time I knew it was the opportunity to leave my career of twelve years of working long hours with great benefits and excellent guaranteed income and enter a field I knew nothing about. Why? It's like that perfect pair of jeans at the store that our mother didn't buy for us all those years ago and so when we got our little paychecks we had our best friends mother take us back to the mall to purchase them and they were gone. I was single with no children and young and figured why not go for it. It has been a long seven years and I look forward to many more years.