SAH/WFH

Not managing.. no balance all baby.. (6 months) messaging here in hopes of seeing some helpful feedback as well!

Tech startup founder here….ive been working hybrid from home and my office for the last 2.5 years…to be honest I feel like right now is the craziest it’s ever been. Daughter has always been with me full time with a some help from my nieces. Idk if there’s such a thing as balance lol I basically go from putting out one kind of fire to another lol I’m also anti screen which definitely makes my life harder (and listen when I say I do NOTTTT judge other ppl, we are all in the trenches so do what you have to do to survive lol cuz I will likely cave at some point lol).

If I’m being honest, I get a great deal of my work done at night and early in the morning. I’m exhausted but I keep telling myself that I just have to make it thru the next couple of years? 🙃 lol idk. Women are superheroes. Nobody will ever convince that isn’t true.

Oh I forgot to add, year 1 wfh was pretty easy….at 2.5 years old now….new challenges because this age you are constantly making sure they don’t kill themselves somehow lol I also forgot to mention that there’s a co-working space where i live specifically for moms and they have supervised play areas for kids which I’ve done a few times. Mostly it just requires me to do a lot of planning. Sundays are for figuring out my schedule for the week, meetings, play dates or whatever and then I just limp thru the week. Fridays I work from my parents house so they get to spend time with her and I just catchup on whatever I need to. Husband is around on weekends so I get a little relief.

I relate to this so much. Being home with little ones while trying to work is definitely a balancing act. Some days feel productive and other days feel like survival mode 😅

One thing that really helped me was finding something flexible I could build from home during small pockets of time. It’s not always perfect, but it’s been such a blessing to be present with my kids while still working toward something for our future.

Sending love to all the moms figuring this out day by day 🤍