I’m sitting in my living room trying to work . My business partner and I have thirty clients waiting in our queue, we are trying to make our business "official", we are constantly working and we love it. And we hired someone to help us take care of the administrative end of our business.
In the background, all day long, are these two children who make messes, scream, cry, yell, sing, eat, drink, want to be held, they are children. Oh and they say "pee and poop" about forty times a day. and I try to stop them, I’m not sure why. I wish they weren’t in the background for so much of my day.
My husband is home today, working, as well. He’s singing Metallica songs and making fake kazoo noises.
We are moving in five days and have not packed anything.
I often wonder how much work I would complete if I were sitting in an office somewhere, just working. Not mothering, not wifing, no cleaning, not doing laundry, just working.
Even though I love being able to be home with my kids and would not trade it in for the world, my work takes a back seat, and sometimes? It’s annoying.
At the end of the day, my work is not done and my house is a mess. It seems everything is taking a back seat. Including showering. It’s like I am unable to complete anything in my life and it’s starting to take a toll on me. I need to figure out order. I need to figure out something .
Any ideas?
June 26th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Hmmm…I’ve never worked at home so you can take my suggestion for a grain of salt, but here goes…
Can you hire a mother’s helper a few days a week to come hang out with the kids while you do just work? That time is only for Be Design.
Or can you institute an hour of “quiet time” every day where the kids go into their room and read or something so that you can have an hour of uninterrupted time?
June 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I don’t do the mom at home thing that well, throw in some work-at-home and that’s asking for nothing but trouble. My guess for you, when school is back in, things will settle a little. The fact is, working is working, whether at home or not. I think, you have to decide exactly what you want to do in a day. I kinda think that the fact you are saving on childcare, by being home and working is enough to say, the benefit is huge. Should you pressure yourself to care for the house too? With a full-time job, I don’t think you should expect yourself to have the house cleaned at the end of the work day. That is like going to work and expecting to somehow clean the house at the same time. Talk to your husband about it and outline your expectations for yourselves. I think you will feel less stressed if you do that.
Best wishes, always!
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