Chris2365's Profile

I work for the federal government full time telecommuting from home. During the early years of my boys' lives, my husband, an executive chef (with a night job) watched the boys. I had a closed door policy on my office (ok, our bedroom) with breaks to run downstairs, get coffee, say hi, etc.

In most 'real' telework jobs where you're employed by an outside entity, you are not allowed to be concurrently watching your children and doing your job. I was blessed to have a good co-parenting situation.

Now the boys are 9 and 12. I lost my husband unexpectedly 3 years ago, but by then, the boys were in school and had been trained all their lives to hush if the phone rang and I had to take a business call. I won't say I'm lucky to have this wonderful of a career where I've been home with my kids all their lives while earning a good wage because I worked hard to get here, but I do feel blessed.

Already done! I host either a family dinner night (family drives in from up to 3 hours away) and we do a big potluck or a craft night or something similar pretty much monthly at my home. My birthday is the 3rd, so my lovely family has already planned out the dinner - I just need to clean the house.

I have found the secret to having a relatively clean house is to entertain a LOT!