“You’re crazy you know that right?” - Trust me, I know

Let me start off by saying that if you’re a mom and you have a full time job, you go girl. If you’re a stay at home mom- again- you go girl! I’m kinda both, and here is why.

My youngest decided when she was a baby she was going to absolutely HATE everyone who wasn’t her mom, yes this includes her Dad lol. She would scream for hours and hours until I got back to her. Obviously I refused to send her to a sitter while I worked because who’d want to deal with that? So I started a Dayhome. It took me a couple months to get full, but I’ve been in business damn near 2 years now and I’m 100% full, all the time.

I make more than enough money, but over those two years I’ve also taken on “side gigs”. I tried the MLM thing, I made good money at that too but I got bored. I let things ride for awhile, doing nothing but the dayhome because it got so busy, but now I’ve decided I want to eventually be able to quit. My 5 year goal, is that when Braelynn is in grade 1 full time, I can ditch the dayhome and finally stop changing diapers lol. So why not start now and ramp up a good clientele right? Right. So here is what my days look like:

5:30 am - wake up, make a tea and start my classes (enrolled in a boudoir certificate right now 😍)

7:00 am - dayhome opens

Now while I’m open with the dayhome I’m also answering calls and emails about my new photography business, and doing regular mom stuff like taking my kids and myself to appointments and activities, teaching them things about life, and also prepping them for school. Oh, and my brother lives with me and I home school him - he is in grade 11 right now. (Hello school, how I despise you) I’m also his track manager, because he is a National Athlete.

5:30 pm - dayhome closes, finish cleaning up the house that I didn’t get cleaned while I had children glued to my legs and needing my attention.

6:15 pm - Hubby is home, supper time. We clean up and then it’s our time, so my brother - the awesome human he is, watches the girls while me and Hubby hit the gym together, or grocery shop, or just drive around and talk about our day.

8:00 pm - Bedtime routine for the girls, bath, snack, story, bed! Just kidding I wish it was that easy. It’s more like: snack, bath, drink, pee, snack, drink, hugs, story, more hugs and kisses, some crying, then bed lol

8:30 - back to my classes

10:00 - my bedtime routine, probably some more work in bed (working on editing or my site until I fall asleep with my iPad in my lap)

That’s my Monday - Friday most days, it varies a little, sometimes I’m able to skip the night class if I was able to do my work during quiet time when all my kiddos were napping, but more or less I’m always on the go, doing something and never relaxing.

My weekends consist of purging my house of junk we have collected, getting caught up on yard work and laundry, and getting the girls out to do fun stuff and give them my undivided attention.

I know some of you are thinking, when do I do that during the week? The honest answer is I don’t get to often, but I make sure that everyday I sit with them when things are calm enough and we talk or color, or even work in their school workbooks I have for them. We laugh and cuddle and watch cartoons before bedtime routine and they Co-sleep right now.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to winter, when I’ll be done my courses, there will be nothing to do outside, and my life will be calming down a bit. Thankfully I thrive in chaos, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exhaust me.

So I’m a bit of both, a career woman and stay at home mom, and I wouldn’t change it for the world. I love the life I am living now.

Don’t let anyone set limitations on yourself but you. But also listen to your body and don’t do too much, take a break when necessary and live your life the way you want to ❤️