Mom Unplugged

Cross Blog Conversation with Trica

Dec 16, 2007 Unplugged Authentcity

So Trica answered my question over at Dragon Fly Dreams about what the title of her blog says about her, and it was a pretty good answer. So she asked me another question and it is more loaded than she thinks.

Here is her question:

What is the average day like in your household?

An average day in my home is simple until my husband enters our world. In other words when he is home, it is anything but normal.

But for the most part we get up around 7:00pm and start breakfast. Usually my husband or teen ager cook because I am just not a breakfast person. I will eat on fruit or dry cereal with a cup or tea or coffee before I cook. So my husband, who is either up before me will cook, or my son AJ when we all get up.

I am actually in my room reading the Bible, my devotions, and praying with my prayer group first thing in the morning. I come out of my room around 9:00 and do my morning chores. I homeschool Breahane (4yr old) for about 30 minutes and then let him play while I do some chores or work. Alexander schools online and I don’t have to work with him unless he has a specific question.

If my husband needs any invoices or contracts drafted I will do those and send any faxes.

After lunch I homeschool Brehane for about another hour and then we do our crafts. He is easy to homeschool because he is only 4.

By the time we are done with crafts AJ is finished with school and I start work.

That’s when the day gets really crazy. My husband forgets it is my time to shine and calls me to look up stuff, find this or that or to just talk. Brehane forgets that AJ is available and tries to take up all the little time I have. Then the phone rings and I forget where I was.

I tell ya it is the pits sometimes.

Dinner is ready by 6:00pm everyday and Brehane is sleep by 8:00pm. For some reason he just refuses to nap in the day time because he says “The Sun is not down yet mommy.”

I work more effectively after 8:00 and will do so until about 10 or 11. That’s when I relax first and then hit the sack. It is not good to go from work to bed. Too much stimulation.

That’s pretty much it.

Of course we have our days for errands, running the streets, worship, taking trips, and just doing nothing.

But this is a typical day.

Trica now I have a question for you…

What do you find most challenging about working from home?