Being a working mom sucks!

Your damned if you do and damned if you don’t!

There are times where I am absolutely split down the middle between wanting to stay home to do home work and having to go to work or work from home.

I have dreams you know….to become a lead CEO, Oprahish woman of my own company and there is a great amount of clarity for that vision.  That is until my little one says something like, “put that away…stop working and be with me.”  I crumble.

Right then I want abandon my CEO world for this precious loving child.

I have wonderful dreams of being a full time at home mom.  Homeschooling even.  I might bake bread and learn to knit so I can be the ever present mom to my child.  This dream is also clear in my mind.  It seems GREAT until I make time to be home and be present with the kids and suddenly the kids want nothing to do with me! lol

What’s a mother to do?

Let me say that what I have learned is there is no room for regret no matter which way I go with this! Regret will only drive me crazy bouncing between two worlds.

When I clarify my values it helps me to be most exact about where I want to spend my quality time with my child.  When I remind myself about this ( top three values), turns out to be THE best and most satisfying way to have time with my child.  It’s then that I have the greatest of confidence that our relationship is growing with warm memories and quality learning from each other.

No regrets…

I am damned no more.