I am ‘trying’ to work from home with a toddler, which means I’m lucky if I have a 2 hour slot a day to do anything, while DC naps. And by working while they nap, it means housework becomes twice as hard to complete when they’re awake!
I’m really struggling to create a schedule that optimises more work time, as well as one where the housework /dinners are sorted between school runs.
I’m not currently working to deadlines, it’s more, the more work I do, the more I could possibly earn, but at the moment I’d be lucky to get more than 10 hours of work time during the week. I also need to try and work during the weekends, but after a week of trying to juggle looking after the toddler, and the older DCs before and after school, I feel completely wiped out.
I’m pretty sure I could overhaul the way I do things to create more working time and stay on top of the normal SAHM duties. (I’ve only just started working so there’s no income coming in yet, and when it does, it’ll be too sporadic at first to pay for childcare) but am struggling to figure it out by myself, so I thought I would ask here, if you’re in a similar situation, how do you manage it all?