Nicole is also a work at home mom. While she owns her own small home business, she also works as a freelance writer, copywriter, editor, ghostwriter and author.

Nicole grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She started writing poetry and song lyrics as early as age 7 and 8, and continued the practice nearly all her life, in addition to also keeping all types of journals and diaries.

Being the creative type from an early age, she enjoys crafts, scrapbooking, stamping, paper crafts, writing, reading, and photography. Nicole loves nature and does a lot of her writing outdoors both with pen and paper and her trusty laptop.

Nicole has been a single parent of two since 2000, however has recently blended her family and is now a happy shared parent of five kids. (Ryan -13, Vanessa - 13, Melissa - 11, Brielle - 10 and Jessica - 8). Much of Nicole's writing reflects her personal stories and experiences which makes for great education, personal experience and humor.

She has been published in various trade media and more recently got accepted to write for an International trade magazine. In addition, she often contributes articles to several local media publications.

As a single parent for so many years, and now a rather large family of seven, she has been practicing a frugal living lifestyle for a very long time. She has always had an interest in various ways to cut costs and save money and this is obvious in her frugal living articles. This experience has given her the opportunity to guest write for the frugal living blog at families.com.

Nicole has also guest blogged on the Single Parenting blog, Food blog , Adoption blog and a handful of others. Her areas of expertise are broad and cover many topics including adoption, blended families, ADHD and several other various topics.

Always one for education, she has continued to learn more about her interests by enrolling in workshops, trainings and other events for professionals in her areas of interest. She has also written several articles for local publications dealing with these interests.

Nicole is currently working on several articles for scrapbooking magazines and two scrapbooking websites. She is also in the process of working on two children's books and her first book series.

Life continues to be one adventure after another.

You can learn even more by visiting her at her website: http://www.nicolehumphrey.net