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How Do You Stay Productive Working from Home?
I started working part-time from home in 2003 and full-time from home in 2006. Although I've been someone else's employee for the last 5 years of that, I still use all of the same techniques for staying focused and productive as an employee that I used as a...
Myth: You’ll Never Have Time to Write After Kids
Despite the fact that writing is who I am and as important to me as breathing, I’ve let it slide since the kids came along, and I’ve used them as an excuse. I was wrong.
Are We Too Busy to Improve?
Are we too busy to improve? That's the subject line of an email I got at work today. It had nothing to do with parenting, but everything to do with everything if you ask me. The focus was on continuously improving business operations amid keeping the lights on and how...
Advice for Moms Feeling Totally Overwhelmed
A fellow multiple mom in one of my Facebook groups posted today about feeling frustrated with her 3.5-year-olds and feeling like she needs a break. I could read the guilt in her post as clear as if "GUILT" had been every other word she wrote. The only thing worse than...
10 Tips for Moving With Small Children
Part of the reason things have been so quiet around here is that the Family-in-Training -- Daddy-in-Training, Mommy-in-Training, Miles, Emmett, a bullmastiff, a pug, and a Lynx Point Siamese cat -- recently moved from Central Virginia to West Central Florida. It was...
You’ll Never Sleep Again! — 9 Tips for Getting the Rest You Need
When I was pregnant, virtually everyone I met told me, "You'd better sleep now, because once you have kids you'll never sleep again!" and laughed like "Neener, neener, neener." There was no variation, except sometimes they laughed extra hard when I told them I was...
Attention New Parents: Your Life Is NOT Over Now That You Have Kids
Why do other parents say so much discouraging crap to new moms and dads? I thought the misery-disguised-as-advice was rampant when I was still pregnant, but I had no idea what was to come once I popped those suckers out. These Debbie Downers were oh-so-uplifting when...
How I Learned to Sleep Again, and Taught My Babies, Too
Over the last 4 weeks or so, I've become increasingly desperate for three things: More sleep. A predictable daily schedule. Unrestricted access to coffee (see No. 1). It only took about 5 months, but the exhaustion has reached a new level. As Princess Mommy put it on...
Bedtime and Other Lies
Dr. Phil says the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so based on that I'm pretty sure Emmett is never going to sleep again. Which means I will never sleep again. Today he actually took an hour-and-forty-nine-minute nap, the first burst of daytime...
Look, Ma, No Hands!
Okay, well, one hand to pull down the Moby so you can see my precious babies. We are almost 7 weeks into this crazy parenting journey, and I'm still trying to figure out how to fit blogging into my day with two completely dependent infants on my hands. (Apparently...
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