Work by Day, Blog by Night

When I went back to work full time after my second maternity leave, I had to make up some time - as in, literally, make it up.

Create it from nothing.

So now I get up at 5:15, shower and am in front of the computer by 5:30. I write my post, (pictures are usually taken on weekends or in the evenings as life happens), mainline my coffee, and by 6:30 have got the toddler up and on the potty and am sitting down to nurse the little guy.

Breakfast is around seven, and we're out the door between 7:30 (a good day) and 7:45 (a less good day).

My husband gets home around five and starts on dinner, which is usually planned in advance but sometimes isn't (bad day), and I walk in the door with the kids at around 5:45, depending on whether I had to coax my daughter away from daycare or not.

They go down between seven and seven-thirty, and after that my husband and I clean up the kitchen, pack the bags and our lunches for the next day, do laundry (cloth diaper wash - argh!) and get the coffee and oatmeal ready to start the next morning.

Then - if I'm lucky - we sit down together for a little while before my brain stops functioning at around 9.

I don't really like my life the way it is now, but it's working.

If only I could invent the 27 hour day...

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Love this post, great visual. I too work outside the home and blog by night and have many similar experiences which keep me laughing and smelling a bit foul.

Hi Jenna,

Thanks for pointing that out. I was by no means saying that I work harder than anyone else or place a certain title on anyone. I wrote this article to try to find more mommies like me and get feedback from the moms who are in different situations. Most of the blogs that I read are from mothers like you that work full-time in the home (which I'm sure is more difficult than what I do with all the distractions in the home that I mentioned in my blog).

I was hoping every mom would be able to relate to some of my distractions and share their own. That is why I asked the questions "How do you juggle your daily life?" and "Do you work full time outside the home too?".

I appreciate the feedback and I will be more careful with my words in the future. I never imagined someone might take offense to that sentence (big mistake on my part).

Have a great mommy day!

I'd be careful with your assumption in that first sentence. Most of the blogs I read are written by moms who work outside of the home, since when I first started parenting I needed to find other moms who understood what I was going through. A large chunk of the other blogs I read are written by moms working full time from their homes -- like me. So I work all day and blog on my own site at night. Unless a kid has woken up crazy early and gone back to sleep, and then I toss something up.

We all create and fumble with our own schedules, no matter our work "titles" and locations.

Family Section Editor Jenna Hatfield (@FireMom ( http://twitter.com/FireMom )) blogs at Stop, Drop and Blog ( http://stopdropandblog.com ) and The Chronicles of Munchkin Land ( http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com ). She is a freelance writer and photographer.