I feel so grateful for the amount of flexibility and freedom I have with running this blog and my social media channels. Not only do I love being “the boss”, but I also love and care about the content and the ability to connect with so many of you on a near daily basis.
It’s a dream job, really. I never knew this could be what it has become, and I’ve been enjoying the ride since 2011.
I knew this summer was going to challenging and it has turned out to be much more chaotic, stressful, and exhausting than I even imagined. Emily was born riiiiiiiight before the boys got out of preschool for the summer. We arranged childcare for them so Justin and I could have predictable work hours, but I didn’t want to hire anyone to care for Emily until she was a bit older. Justin and I knew it was going to be a tag-team effort to care for her while the other one worked during the time that the boys are with their babysitter. I’m nursing, which is going a million times better than I could have hoped (such a gift!) and I’m learning that I do not have enough time to do what I need to do to keep the blog running at the pace it was running at before.
The problem with being an entrepreneur, and an “ideas” girl, is that I have so many ideas in my head for things I want to work on for the blog but so little time to execute them! I’m jotting them down and saving them for future reference though!
At the same time, I long to be a present mot...