Can You Really Balance Work Life from Home Life?

When I got pregnant with my first child I had a lot of mixed emotions. I was extremely excited but on the flip side of things I was nervous and terrified. All kinds of thoughts ran through my head. I was wondering how I was going to work and take care of a child. I had not one ounce of parenting skills.

I was nervous about giving birth and the pain I was going to feel during labor. So I started reading a lot of parenting magazines and doing extensive research on motherhood. I could write a book about my first child alone and the changes I went through with her and her father so I'll go ahead and fast forward to parenting my second child. Parenting my second child got a little easier because I knew what to expect. At least I thought I did. However when I had my son it made me realize that each child is different and has their own little different personality.

Motherhood is never easy and no matter how many children you have you still have those mixed emotions. At least I did. Based on my experience with my daughter I had a hard time "letting go" with my son. I had separation anxiety issues. I couldn't trust my child with just anyone. So I decided to become a stay at home parent.

Once I decided to become a stay at home parent I then had to figure out how to generate an income and still stay at home with my child. That's when I decided to go googling on the internet to find jobs.

After finding some legitimate leads I finally started to generate income.

While parenting and working from home sounds easy don't let it fool you. It can be pretty difficult sometimes. You have to be able to balance your "home life" from your "work at home life." You still have to have some type of schedule set up because if you don't things tend to go haywire. Know that regardless if you set a schedule or not it is not always set in stone. There will be distractions.

I'll give you an example of this. I use the corner of my bedroom as an office. When I close my door to work my son comes banging on my door screaming "Mommy Mommy open door! Open door now Mommy!" So I found that working jobs that require me to be on the phone do not work for me. It worked for me up until he turned a year and it was all she wrote after that.

I do types of work such as data entry and freelance writing because it helps me with my child's unique personality. On days that I am working and I decide to leave my door open my son will sometimes run

into my room. Mind you he is three years old. He does cute little things such as asking me if I'm ok. At times he wants to help me with my work. He will sit on my lap and try to type away at the keyboard while asking "Mommy ya need help?" All I can do at the time is laugh. Then he says "Heh heh mommy that's funny." Then I have to make the poor little guy go play. Trying to balance my family life from work at home life can be a little stressful at times. It also has its perks. When I feel like taking a timeout from working I can go play with my son and do other things in the house that need to be done.