It is a balancing act. Being a teacher, I have lots of time off, but using that time to prepare for school is very tempting. Having children, I want to devote all my "free" time to them. But then, there is the cleaning, cooking, and washing that needs to be done. The necessity for me to earn an income then increases my desire to find ways of working from home (with enough money to make it worth for me to stay at home). So then, I find when I am home with my children, I'm not really "there."
It is a balancing act I am struggling to perfect. It is especially challenging when I find I have spent my summer focusing more on my children and then find out I should have been also working on ways to work from home because what I thought was a secure job, falls through and and I stuck trying to find a job.
Like I said, it is a balancing act.
