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It’s always good to wake up knowing that the weekends is here again. For some people, it’s a motivation after a long week and for others, the weekends is a time of bonding with the family especially the kids. As work at home parents, we tend to get into the rut of working everyday without separating the weekends from weekdays. This is surely not a healthy thing to do so it’s good to constantly take a conscious break from your home office when the weekends is here.

I reserve my weekends to do my personal stuff. Next month onwards, I would need to slot in household chores as my part time cleaner has decided to end her tenure with us. Maintaining the house can be time consuming so there’ll be more juggling to do when the time comes. This weekend, I plan to look for some wedding invitations for a friend who have assigned this task to me. I suppose working in a home office allow me more time to access to the internet, plus I’m in the internet business! That reminds me that I need a fresh vision for my online business. I need a recharge and a new direction of where my online business should be.

Being an online business entrepreneur is an exciting thing for any work at home person but you can agree with me that lots of determination and patience is needed. There are days where I wonder when the break through will come or the big money will be at my doorstep but what I must learn to appreciate is the ongoing learning experience that money can’t buy. You may think this is just pure optimism but seriously, you do need lots of that when you are on your own. This is both a blessing and challenge of being a work at home entrepreneur.

In a couple of weeks’ time, I would be starting my day as a work at home mom earlier as my boy starts school half hour earlier. Beginning the day early may be a good thing since I tend to get more done in the early part of the day. A normal day to day routine for me includes a morning stretch, a quiet time to calm my being, household chores and a simple breaky before heading to the home office.

In the last few weeks, my DH, who is also a work at home dad has been working on our new home business website. I am glad that he’s initiating the business development while I continue to support him with relevant content and materials for the website. After much discussion, we have decided to start an internet consulting business when we move to down under and I’m really excited about this. I know it will take us a while to settle down before diving straight into the new business. Like every new home business start up, we need time, a small investment and commitment to get things going and patience is an important ingredient to success too. We hope to join some business network groups to get more acquainted with new people and contacts when the time comes. Don’t think that your home business is only limited to your online contacts.

As we plan for our new home office, I’m reminded to put in some fitness equipment for our home gym so that we can have a good balance of work, exercise and play. DH is one person who can’t start the day without his workouts and exercise keeps him motivated and mentally fit for the day’s tasks. With these plans in place, I also hope to start a network of work at home moms in my circle and encourage more to enter the home office fold.

I felt eager to start the new week after a restful weekend. It was a tiring one the week before when my little boy was ill and I am just so glad he’s recovering so well now. I can’t help but count my blessings for being a work at home mom especially when my child needed some extra care on those under the weather days.

For me, no matter how busy I am in my home office, there’s nothing like having dinner together as a family. Although it can be tough balancing work life and family life but I always make it a point to cook a meal for the family so that we can end the day well. DH and me avoid discussing work at the dinner table even though we work from home. We often engage a conversation with little junior and find out how’s school has been for that day.

Sometimes I feel guilty about neglecting my child when he came running into our home office after school. It is hard to keep him out and he’s always expecting one of us to play with him. He would help himself with many gadgets in our workplace, from our digital camera to our SD card, it’s challenging to focus on my work when he’s around. So the best time to work productively would be the time he’s in school. After that, it would be divided attention.

But seriously, ask me to trade a full time job with my current home office? The answer will be a ‘no-no’. I am enjoying my role as a work at home mom and wouldn’t mind the long working hours when little junior goes to bed. As such, the office remains open throughout the day and night until DH and myself calls it a day. So that’s life for us and it looks like this will continue for us in the many years to come.