Re: Digest Number 211
[email protected]
In a message dated 9/19/99 7:04:17 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
[email protected] writes:
<< I know several people who hs and work. many, like me, work around our
partner's schedule. >>
I , myself, have joined the ranks of the homeschooling/working moms. I made
the decision this summer that I just couldn't contribute nothing to the
nonprofit I founded a few years ago. So this summer I joined on again, but
as the program development coordinator (fancy word for
grantwriter/fundraiser). Oddly enough, if all goes well, I will be making a
lot more money than when I was out there trying to do this fulltime. And the
glory is that I work 95% from home.
It is an interesting mix to try to swing hubby's 40 hour schedule and my 10 -
20 (soemitmes 30) hour weekly schedule. I am trying to adjust to a night
working schedule now. I begin work around 8:00 PM and tie it up somewhere
between 12:00 - 1:00 AM depending. Hubby gets the boys to bed and does the
final evening stuff. The boys and I have agreed that they get up on their
own in the morning so I can sleep till around 8:30 - 9:00. So far, all three
of us have surpassed the 9:00 AM wake up time on several days :o) So I guess
we are trying to set up some schedule that does allow for some flexibility.
If we all sleep till 10:00 AM, I guess it is OK... but we will just have to
make sure we try to keep up with scheduled events.
This schedule is very contrary to what I had been striving to implement for a
few years. I wanted early to bed, ealry to rise for myself. But when I do
that, I find that the boys don't get the attention they need until around
noon!!!! I get going in my work and they just wing it for the morning.
Guilt tore me away from that schedule so I am trying the evening thing. So I
hope this transition to the evneing schedule works out. I have my guys from
morning to evening and we can do whatever! I do enjoy this part of it!
Though I sense tension between hubby and I on the horizon. So, I may just
have to be really motivated and try to get my work done by 10:00 or 11:00 PM,
hahaha. If I stick a Saturday morning in there, that should work out great!
UGH! Always a balancing act!
Hey, thanks for working through my scheduling problems with me! I guess as
long as we all work together as a family and keep our communication lines
open, we , as a family, will make this work for all of us. Or else I will
quit my job! hahaha
Kim in Ohio
[email protected] writes:
<< I know several people who hs and work. many, like me, work around our
partner's schedule. >>
I , myself, have joined the ranks of the homeschooling/working moms. I made
the decision this summer that I just couldn't contribute nothing to the
nonprofit I founded a few years ago. So this summer I joined on again, but
as the program development coordinator (fancy word for
grantwriter/fundraiser). Oddly enough, if all goes well, I will be making a
lot more money than when I was out there trying to do this fulltime. And the
glory is that I work 95% from home.
It is an interesting mix to try to swing hubby's 40 hour schedule and my 10 -
20 (soemitmes 30) hour weekly schedule. I am trying to adjust to a night
working schedule now. I begin work around 8:00 PM and tie it up somewhere
between 12:00 - 1:00 AM depending. Hubby gets the boys to bed and does the
final evening stuff. The boys and I have agreed that they get up on their
own in the morning so I can sleep till around 8:30 - 9:00. So far, all three
of us have surpassed the 9:00 AM wake up time on several days :o) So I guess
we are trying to set up some schedule that does allow for some flexibility.
If we all sleep till 10:00 AM, I guess it is OK... but we will just have to
make sure we try to keep up with scheduled events.
This schedule is very contrary to what I had been striving to implement for a
few years. I wanted early to bed, ealry to rise for myself. But when I do
that, I find that the boys don't get the attention they need until around
noon!!!! I get going in my work and they just wing it for the morning.
Guilt tore me away from that schedule so I am trying the evening thing. So I
hope this transition to the evneing schedule works out. I have my guys from
morning to evening and we can do whatever! I do enjoy this part of it!
Though I sense tension between hubby and I on the horizon. So, I may just
have to be really motivated and try to get my work done by 10:00 or 11:00 PM,
hahaha. If I stick a Saturday morning in there, that should work out great!
UGH! Always a balancing act!
Hey, thanks for working through my scheduling problems with me! I guess as
long as we all work together as a family and keep our communication lines
open, we , as a family, will make this work for all of us. Or else I will
quit my job! hahaha
Kim in Ohio