Let's Get Focused!

Do you ever feel like you have a thousand ideas or things you'd like to accomplish, but you don't know where to start? Welcome to my world! Here it is almost 1am, and I'm already thinking about what I'm making for dinner tomorrow, the treadmill I keep telling myself I'm getting on at 5am, and how I'm going to have time to work on my new home business idea! There just aren't enough hours in the day for a Mom. We don't sleep! We power nap, LOL....

My New Idea!

I'm Baaaccckkkk!

And here I am. Now what?! LOL…

I quit my job last week. Not really a job-job. I had been temping for 2 months-trying to ease my way back into corporate America. I have been a SAHM for the past 2 years. I have worked from home as an independent contractor in the customer service industry for several years. I did it part-time mostly evenings and weekends while I worked full-time outside the home. After the birth of my son, my husband and I decided that to eliminate the cost of daycare I would quit my full time job and work full time from home. I was scared to death! Back then, I didn’t like change. I was comfortable.

Fast foward to a couple months ago….I started to feel like I needed a break from the whole Barney thing and wanted to see if I still “had it”, lol. Well…going back to work out side the home is a lot harder than I thought it would be. My days started at 4:30 am. Long gone were the days of sleeping until 7am and getting the kids off to school by 8 am. I’d leave at 5:30 am, catch a cab (no car) to the train, ride that for 2 stops, switch over to another train, and then finally a bus to reach my destination. While the whole commute only took about an hour and a half, I was exhausted by the time I walked in the office at 7 am! I’d have to arrive an hour early because it was the only way I could get to work on time. Catching a later train would make me late! I’d sit in a cubicle taking call after call for 8 hours. I started to think, is this really what I thought it would be like? No smoke break when I wanted, no chatting on AIM with my BF during the day, no checking personal email?! Rules, rules, rules….

As bad as I needed a break from Barney and Teletubbies, I surely started to miss it! I missed being home when my 2 older kids came home from school. I missed spending time with my husband on his off days. I missed having dinner ready by 6pm. Work was not “working” for me! LOL…

So here I am. Home sweet home….and NOW, it’s time to make the “donuts”…..