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I am really enjoying this time that my daughter is in preschool. There have been a few tears shed in the morning, but overall she is having a really great time. I am also able to devote that time to working and I am feeling less pressure to work at bedtime and naptime (what little there is anymore). Which leads me to free time! Yay! I am loving free time. We just signed up for Netflix again with the writer’s strike. Although Lost starts tonight and I am very excited about that.

Anyway my blogging is done for the week and I have been able to check numerous other things off my list. I think this is going to be a short work week though. They are forecasting large amounts of snow to fall tomorrow and I am guessing tomorrow will be a snow day at my daughter’s school. I am already making plans for some baking or art projects to occupy our time. Pretzels that she can help me make are always a good time.

Today my daughter started preschool. She has just turned 2 years and 9 months old. I was going to wait til the fall to start her at preschool but not having anyone to watch her during the week so that I can work was starting to take it’s toll. So we looked around to find a preschool in our area that would take a non-potty trained, non-three-year-old and fits our ideals. And we found it and it is awesome and she started today! Oh goodness was I so nervous this morning, but my daughter handled it like a real trooper and had a great time. I will have a whole 6 hours every week to devote completely to working. I am so excited and hope that I can get a ton done in that time. I would love to have more time to devote to my family and my hobbies without having to share it with work.

I would have to say that one of the biggest obstacles in working from home is my daughter. I love my daughter dearly and I did not want to put her in daycare after she was born. It took me about a year to get back on my feet so to speak after she was born. I had a hard time focusing on anything for very long, definitely a case of mommy brain. I had to find that new normal and learn that it was also a constantly changing thing.

She is 2 1/2 now and we seem to be at a very challenging stage. She is at that point where she may or may not take a nap during the day. I had relied on that time to work and now I can’t. If she does take a nap, then it takes forever for her to fall asleep at night. I think one of the solutions may be to get up earlier in the morning, but I am not much of a morning person.

I am lucky though in that she will play independently for awhile. So I can get some work done during the day. That time is often interrupted by requests for food, drinks, reading books, playing, etc. So it is not very focused time. It took me a better part of the afternoon to reply to an email interview request.

My husband and I made the decision early on that we didn’t want to put our daughter in daycare. One we really didn’t want anyone else raising our daughter and two it is so very expensive. Now that she is older we have tossed around the idea of trying out preschool. She isn’t potty trained yet, so that limits our options. We tried out a Mother’s Helper type situation one afternoon a week but it didn’t work out too well for a multitude of reasons. My parents split their time between here and Florida. When they are here, they watch her one day a week which is wonderful for everyone. Currently they are in Florida and we miss them dearly.

If you work from home, how do you manage working with a little one under your feet? Any tips or suggestions that you would like to share?