Work – Love – Play
Monday, January 31st, 2011From Monday Mom – Melissa:
I recently saw the movie “Eat, Love, Pray.” While I didn’t particularly enjoy the movie, the message did hit home with me: balance. As a work at home mom for over 5 years, balance has always been difficult. Now that Brady is in preschool, it is a bit easier to balance my regular hours. However, I recently got a lawyer bill that was astronomically high. (When they say divorce and custody court costs a lot both financially and emotionally… they are being very serious.) So now I am trying to keep my balance, while I greatly increase my time working at both my online content manager job and the teaching business that I own.
Often I feel like I am either on a treadmill and keep running and not getting much accomplished. Or worse yet, swimming and treading water while only coming up for air occasionally. Please tell me that I am not the only mom who has trouble balancing it all!
Family members have offered to help watch Brady, so I can get more work hours in. I have taken them up on the offer. My goal is to be debt free by the end of the summer. Sometimes we all have to make short-term sacrifices for the long-term advantages and freedom. But I need to be careful to make sure I keep the balance of Work-Love-Play with Brady.
Yes, I have bills to pay and debt to creep out of. But I also have a little boy who isn’t going to be five forever: so he needs to feel my love and know I can play (sometimes). So right now I am on that treadmill: running fast, holding my baby’s heart in my hand, and fitting in as much play time as possible! I have to run now, heading outside. I have some snow to go play in: some angels to make, a snowman that needs building, and lots of sledding fun in my day.
