Working from home

I'm writing this blog mostly for the benefit of other parents, and one topic I've seen come up a lot in parenting communities is balancing work and family. Yes, my work life and my family life are sort of like a teeter totter wavering up and down, but I make it work. Sometimes I focus a lot on my family and I end up having to rush and get things done for work quickly. Other times I realize it's been far too long since I last changed my daughter's diaper, but I finished up some projects/emails/whatever.

So, how do you balance it better?


That's an excellent question with a complicated answer. For every family I think it's different, but here's what's working for me right now.

I have to schedule every moment of every day. It sounds tedious and kind of extreme, but I realized that I just can't keep track of everything in my head and I'm not a great time manager.
I have a dry erase calendar on my refrigerator and an app on my phone with color coding options!
I'm a Mary Kay consultant, run an Etsy shop, a mom, and a wife. My events are teal, Mary Kay is pink, Etsy is orange, my daughter is purple, family events are green, and my husband's events are blue.

My husband and I have talked it out and we take turns watching the baby at night so I can make dinner and do work tasks. He makes dinner twice a week to help me out, too.

Pinterest has a lot of great ideas for making frozen dinners and mixes ahead of time so that dinner can be whipped up quickly on the busy nights!

I hope this can be helpful to you, please let me know what works for your family!

Last, but not least, I love this dinner idea for the busy nights! It's quick, easy, and yummy :)
Mini corn dog muffins, served with veggies!

My websites are www.marykay.com/simone.poe and www.etsy/shop/victoriaroseemporium if you'd like to see them! I love what I do with both businesses and am happy to answer any questions you may have, to the best of my ability!