Why I Can be a WAHM

WAHM is Work At Home Mom for those that acronym challenged :)

It is not always the easiest thing to accomplish work with both of beautiful daughters around. Tuesdays are really the most challenging days though. Marlie is in school on M-W-F and Jayson is home on W-Th, so Tuesday is really the only super difficult day to balance. The key is to get up early and bust out some serious work during nap time, and not to try and do too much while they're awake, or it can get frustrating.

Let's see - it's only noon on Tuesday and today I have already taken the girls out for breakfast (girl time!), stopped into Wal-Mart for groceries, Sam took her morning nap, Marlie had her craft time, unloaded the groceries of course, skimmed the cookbooks for tonight's dinner, made 8 benefit system changes, ran 3 reports for analyses and grouping, completed a conference call, paid some bills, balanced the checkbook, and put Marlie down for her nap and Sam down for her 2nd nap . . . and again, it's only noon . . . .

But the main reason I am able to do all of this has nothing to do with my multi-tasking ablilities, it has to do with the pics above. Because while Sam is napping, I have a daughter that is able to hang out and play and be creative by herself for periods of time while I get work done. All I know is that she asked if she could get out her Play-Doh - 10 minutes later I hear, "Mommy, my shapes are done" . . . when I got out to the kitchen she had made 1 of each shape out of her Play-Doh all by herself - and then told me "clover, diamond, star, circle, shark, turtle, and penguin".

The tasks I have accomplished so far today pale in comparison to those of my not-yet 3 yr old daughter!!!