Tips, tools, and resources to help you work from your home
successfully while nurturing your children
Embrace the mess + magic of
simplifying, slowing down, and
defining your own enough.
We've got this.
Together.
Life is challenging. There are times (like this moment right now) when we don't know how things will be 1 week or even 1 day from now. This can leave us feeling discouraged and scared -- especially when we have little people to keep alive and happy. And we can do this. ...But we don't have to do it on our own.
This project exists to leave you (us!) feeling uplifted and supported in your life as a woman and mother working*, schooling, and raising kids from home.
*(psst: we all work from home, with benefits... whether paid with cash or not).
So, welcome, friend. Whether we've known each other for years or we haven't met yet, I'm so glad you're here!
My hope is that you'll grab something for you, grab something to share, and please -- if you have your own goodness to contribute, don't hold back!
This "extreme work at home" stuff is no cakewalk.
Let's roll up our sleeves, get back to the basics, and make some magic happen.
On the menu:
Co-Work With Your Kids
Practical support (not more homework!) for navigating the challenges of nurturing while working from home
Work-Life Balance
Discover a more effective
(and enjoyable) approach than living on the balance beam
Make "Dough" From Home
Resources for finding and/or creating legitimate opportunities to continue your career remotely
Love Being a Mom (truly!)
A simple daily practice to improve your relationship with motherhood
Refresh & Recharge
"Recipes" and tools to help you make room
for your own well-being
Community Brunch
Private social network (that's right; not just a Facebook group) to share what we're learning, potluck style
Starting with the basics:
a few things you "knead" to know
(I'd apologize, but I'm really not sorry.)
1. It's going to be messy.
I like a good blowout (the hair kind, not the diaper kind) and mani/pedi as much as the next girl, but this is a place to take off the gloss and glamour. Yes, we'll talk about the joy of raising kids and the terrific life lessons that can be shared. But we're also going to get real. No heels and pearls required here, buddy.
2. There's no "one right way" to make your bread.
All breads start out with a basic combination of a few key ingredients: flour, water, salt, and some kind of leavening agent. But just like a bakery has countless examples of bread (baguette, banana, ciabatta, challah, sourdough, wheat, corn, rye, pretzel, pita, soda, bagel, naan...), the outcome of the way we choose to combine our own ingredients can (and must) be unique to us individually. Motherhood is the same way: a few basics to be successful, but so many variations. Moral of the story? There's really no sense in comparing your asiago to Julie's pumpernickel.
3. Mastery takes practice.
Case in point: I have yet to successfully bake a traditional loaf of white or wheat bread. I can make melt-in-your-mouth rolls, breadsticks that give Olive Garden's a run for their money, and banana bread that tricks you into thinking you're eating cake. But a basic white or wheat loaf? More akin to masonry. But. [and this is the point] I'm committed to learning! I will celebrate and lean on what I'm great at, and I'll find resources and mentors to help me through my frustration-filled baking blunders.
13 Years and Counting
There was a good chunk of time when I hesitated sharing anything close to advice about working from home with kids. I don't know, I guess I questioned whether it was the right choice, and wanted to make sure I didn't break my kids before encouraging other people to do the same...?
The breakage is yet to be determined, but at least after 13 years of co-working with my kids they are kind, loving, generous, fabulous people. Of course there are challenges (I am raising humans, after all), but at least I can say with confidence that working from home has been far greater a blessing than a burden.
More about this on the about page.
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