CompuServe Messages

Welmoed– Have you considered moving your office into the house temporarily? My "office" has been in three separate places, in attempts to find an arrangement that would work with a toddler. I took a cue from a neighbor and finally put my office in one end of a large downstairs rec room. Then I put all of my daughters toys at the other end. (She calls it "her house" because she has fisher-price kitchen stuff). Anyway, all is not perfect, but I get *much* more work done with this arrangement because she can see me and get to me when she wants to. (When I had my office in a separate room, she'd cry every time I went in there to work.) Still, I eventually began leaving her with a neighbor in the mornings (she's 2-1/2 now) so that I could have a few hours for unhampered work. Even so, I often get up at 4:30 to finish deadlines, or stay up late. It's definitely a challenge. But yesterday, when I was finishing 3 projects at once, feeling a bit flustered, and my daughter and her friend were running around the house playing "monster," giggling hysterically, I realized it's all worth it. She has those hours at home, and I have those hours with her (even if I AM distracted!). Dianne