When my son was three years old, we had a terrible experience with his daycare. Because of this, I decided that I needed to be able to stay at home with him. My husband and I started looking into options for an at-home business that I could run while taking car of Sam.

One of the things that our town was lacking was an outdoor adventure park for young children. It would be something that I could run and I would be able to take Sam to work with me every day. We found a place that had bouncy castles for sale and got to work on building our playground.

The first year, we had the castles and a mini golf course and the second year we added some inflatable slides. The park was a big hit and it was the perfect opportunity for our family to bring in an income and make sure that Sam was well taken care of.