It seems when you run a business from your home, your time at work needs to be approved by whomever you live with, at least if you’re part of a family. I don’t know if this expectation arises when you’re male. I would imagine any time working at home, especially when there are children involved, would require some time management.
Anyhoo, I’ve been at this full-time work-at-home business for two years now. I’m just now realizing that we, as a family, need a schedule. My schedule. And it needs to be pretty immovable.
I have a schedule typed and posted. But in our reality of holidays, the jump start of college football season (part of hubs job) and the shortened first weeks of school, we haven’t implemented it yet. Monday will be the start of the litmus test of whether this will work. I hope it does… it gives us all a bit of routine that we’ve been craving.
So, after this summer of “why don’t we do this today?”, my moment is the absolute desire of routine. I think I can declare that desire a family moment this week. Let’s get this party started!
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OM is *one moment* and is a meetup designed to notice & relish a moment in everyday life. The meetup idea was created by Linda at her blog, a la mode stuff.
If you’d like to participate in OM, just click the button and you’ll be taken to Linda’s post explaining it all.
I agree. It’s a struggle, but I try to keep office hours too. For me, however, it’s easy to pop into my office to “answer an email” or “put an extra coat on a switchplate.” The kids think I work more than my husband (who works 90+ hours a week as resident). Not good.
My goal this year (and I’ll say more in my OM post today) is to close the door at 3PM, when the kids come home, and devote my time to them, dinner, myself.
After this summer, I have decided that we must always have a schedule. Too much free time gets us into trouble.
This post makes me want to cry. I need and yearn for a schedule, but I’m not sure how to implement it. The first week of school kicked my rear. Like Linda, I want to work while the kids are at school, then close the door and devote myself to them, but how do I factor in volunteering in the classroom, housework, bills, groceries, yada, yada, yada? Not to mention a husband how is gone for days at a time and a 2.5 hour kindergarten schedule. Help!!!
P.S. Thanks for being my forum for unloading my pent up stress 🙂
Oh my word, it’s like you took the words right out of my head and posted it here in this post. It’s so hard working from home. Everyday “my work” gets set aside as I bend and meet the needs of everyone else. When it comes to my one-year old daughter, that’s understandable, but what about my husband and friends. Constantly I feel like they don’t take me, “my work”, and my schedule seriously. Ugh, it’s hard!
Oh my, obviously an issue we all have to work on! I so hope that next week brings out the the structure you need. One of the hardest things I had to conquer was finding a way to IGNORE those dirty dishes in the sink, that laundry on the floor, whenever I had some free time…I’m getting better at it – but it helps buckets that Liam is actually old enough at 13 that I really can have him do it…not perfectly, but we haven’t died from unclean plates yet! 😉