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...does anyone do this?
Is it even possible?
I'm on week three of a four week annual vacation. Whenever I take leave, I invariably have lots of free time (that's time not spent traveling or camping or visiting friends, etc), and I always try to get some writing out of the way; finish the odd short-story here, return to the illimitable novella there, you get the idea.
I'm only able to do this during the Witching Hours of the night.
No, seriously! I can't find a peaceful moment before 11PM or after 8AM.
My husband does this. Not quite as much now as he used to. This job requires him to spend a lot more time at stores than the last one did. Basically he just has a separate office, and we leave him alone during working hours. Which is pretty much whenever the door is closed.
Speaking for all stay-at-home parents, I say ... Welcome to our reality.
It always amuses (okay, infuriates) me when my husband is on vacation and expects that his time is his own to do with as he pleases. Small children in particular are parasites which suck energy and time away from their caregivers. I swear there's some sort of temporal distortion; my days don't have near as many hours as they used to before I had kids.
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Speaking for all stay-at-home parents, I say ... Welcome to our reality.
It always amuses (okay, infuriates) me when my husband is on vacation and expects that his time is his own to do with as he pleases. Small children in particular are parasites which suck energy and time away from their caregivers. I swear there's some sort of temporal distortion; my days don't have near as many hours as they used to before I had kids.
I should say, this was not a venting, and I don't begrudge the time spent with the family; not at all--I'm gone a lot (military), and I actually do my best writing at night anyway.
The impetus for this thread was really just a question of how does one work from home with small-ones underfoot. I mentioned this first to my wife, who is now a 90% stay-at-home Mom--she laughed and told me (after saying, "I thought you liked writing at night?"), "You take time for yourself when it pops up; otherwise, now you know why I stay up till two in the morning."
She did tell me, after I retire, that we should build a detached guesthouse that could double as my home office. Piers Anthony claims this (having his home office in a converted stable just off his house) is the only reason he's been able to write at all, especially when his kids were kids.
Speaking for all stay-at-home parents, I say ... Welcome to our reality.
It always amuses (okay, infuriates) me when my husband is on vacation and expects that his time is his own to do with as he pleases. Small children in particular are parasites which suck energy and time away from their caregivers. I swear there's some sort of temporal distortion; my days don't have near as many hours as they used to before I had kids.
I should say, this was not a venting, and I don't begrudge the time spent with the family; not at all--I'm gone a lot (military), and I actually do my best writing at night anyway.
The impetus for this thread was really just a question of how does one work from home with small-ones underfoot.
*shrugs* God knows I don't get much done. But I believe that a lot of work-from-home parents use nannies/babysitters/daycare for at least part of the day or do their most interruption-sensitive work during school hours.
Sorry if I jumped on you. I've just seen one too many TV portrayals of stay-at-home moms as Oprah addicts with nothing but time on their hands.
...does anyone do this?
Is it even possible?
I'm only able to do this during the Witching Hours of the night.
No, seriously! I can't find a peaceful moment before 11PM or after 8AM.
Haha. Been there.
(1) Give your kid some of the money you earn working at home and tell them to scram.
(2) Lock the door.
(3) If you want to work at home don't choose something tedious cuz there's no taskmaster, baby!