Why Do You Work At Home

Author: admin, October 30th, 2009

With all of the frustrations and messes of life happening right under our noses all the time, as work at home moms, we can forget our ‘why’ sometimes. This sweet article by Nicole Dean will help you remember!

Working from Home — Examining your ‘Why’

~~You can listen to this article, if you’d rather, right here: Nicole Dean – Examine Your Why

As Work at Home Moms, we talk about our “Why” as a positive thing. Our “Why” is our purpose, our reason, our muse. We refer to our ‘Why’ when we need inspiration or motivation to reach outside our comfort zone, to try a little harder, to keep going even when it’s hard. Our ‘Why’ helps us to succeed.

Today I was asking “Why work from home” in a slightly different tone. Today, I am home with a sick puppy and am up to my eyeballs in puppy puke.

I’m new to this puppy thing. I was warned up and down about how much work a puppy is, and I thought “I have two children. How hard can a puppy possibly be?!” Well, one difference is that newborn babies aren’t born with fangs –

at least mine weren’t. So, in between changing the gauze patches on my shredded arms (those teeth are sharp!), and hours of puppy school, I fell in love with this furry beast. He was added to my list of “Why’s”.

So, today, while I was composing my work at home mom newsletter, in the background I hear my furr-ball start to vomit — again. The thought that ran through my mind initially was not a happy “Why”. It was more like:

WHY in the world am I home to deal with this while my husband gets to sit in a quiet office all day?

WHY isn’t HE dealing with cleaning up the 8th pile of yucky stuff?

WHY don’t I get any peace and quiet while I work?!

After I cleaned up the puppy, rubbed his head and got him clean blankets, threw in another load of laundry, and climbed into bed with my sick 7 year old and my 3 year old to read stories, I had time to collect my thoughts. A little bit (ok, a LOT) of puppy puke was sure worth it.

And, later, when I made my phone call to my husband to tell him about our day, it wasn’t the puppy-puke I was telling him about….

I told him how our daughter said that she wanted to plant some jelly beans to grow a jelly bean tree. And, how the kids were playing the game of Life and I overheard their rules. They decided that the person who got the most parents
into the car won. That’s why I stay at home.

And, if a furry little tail starts wagging when I walk into the room? Well, that’s sure an added bonus.

So, the next time your warm and loving “Why” turns into a plea for help, take a deep breath and think of all the memories you would be missing — both good and not-so-good, if you weren’t a work at home mom.

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Nicole Dean is the mostly-sane Mom behind www.ShowMomTheMoney.com Are you a Work at Home Mom looking for ways to get more traffic? Take the Web Traffic School tutorial – Free! www.WebTrafficBasics.com

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