This one is for the lady warriors...

It really is a constant job keeping the balance.
We have an 11 year old daughter that we put on the school bus at 8.30 am and pick up again at 3.30 pm.

The time in between is for running the business - hubby and I both work at home on our little empire. We have our business meetings while walking the dog.

3.30 pm - 7.30 pm is family time and then our daughter goes up for her shower and bed.

8 pm onwards we can catch up with emails etc. This is also the time when the housework gets done. This and Saturday morning.

We have systems set up. Peter is responsible for maintaining the car and the garden and any heavy jobs that I can't do and I do most of the housework. We take turns cooking dinner and Peter's in charge of the dishes and keeping the kitchen tidy and I must say, he does a wonderful job.

We decided a long time ago that we liked to live in a tidy house, but that it would take both of us working together, to achieve it.

We moved 200 miles from Liverpool to the middle of nowhere in South West Scotland to downshift and enjoy more time together and I think we are getting there.

To spend 24/7 together, living and working, we really do have to work as a team. It's really worth it though and we get the balance right most of the time.

Heather x

I kinda cheated

About 5-6 years ago we made the decision to move to a remote area for the sake of our kids, and with that decision we knew my husband wouldn't have much in the way of job opportunities (he's not home business material). We wanted to focus on raising the kids well though, and paying full attention to them, so we decided to swap roles. He took on the housework, errands, taxying the kids around, keeping track of them and so on, and I made the money

So he does the laundry every Monday night, runs the sweeper when I'm sleeping, "mucks out" the bathroom, washes dishes, cooks supper, does the grocery shopping and so on.

The routine has been modified a little each year because our kids have been growing up and leaving. We've always had chores for the kids to do and there's been a good rotation/sharing amongst everyone (hubby included) from the start. As kids leave, that rotation changes a little. At the moment we're down to just one child at home and she just started her senior year of high school. So he and her rotate dishes, cooking, and trash every other night, and I've started stepping in to help here and there as "practice" for once we're down to just he and I in the house. In return he's been helping me with programming and motivation.

He is also not quite as picky about cleanliness as I am, so sometimes I'll get in a mood and do the polishing, sweeping carpets, decluttering and misc other stuff.

Some things are just mine though. The front yard maintenance and gardening for example, because he's afraid he'll whack down the wrong thing if he touches that area. He deals with the back yard though, and helps me with problem areas on the sides if I get too far behind.

I like it alot and I feel quite spoiled with the arrangement

I got up at 4:00 am and answered email. Dug through dozens of forums trying to figure out how to get my Zen Cart & Authorize.net shopping cart working for international payments.
Drove 2 girls to volleyball & then to the grocery store. Packed 30 orders to ship on Monday, then created 40 pieces of technical art for a math textbook I'm working on in my real job. Did two loads of laundry and weeded the front garden.

Sounds like a regular day here - can't comprehend doing it without a supportive husband that continually asks, "What can I do to help you?" He cooks, he cleans, and yeah, he has his own business, too.

I think your post shows why a lot of work-at-home women hang out in their own forums.

Treece

Just reading all the work that's going on makes me want to take a nap.

I was up at 7:00 a.m. Started and completed a clickbank submission, 3 websites, answered e-mail, tracked my cousin who is driving from Arizona to Ohio to make sure she's safe, tracked my mom who is driving from Tennessee to Ohio to make sure she's safe, loaded the dishwasher, fed the cats, scooped the litter boxes, made about a dozen other phone calls, surfed another forum for the answer to a really aggravating questions about DLG, swept the cat hair out of the living room, did a load of laundry (oops, there goes the buzzer on the dryer), checked into WF and sent a couple of PM's and answered a couple of posts, smoked way too many cigs and drank too much cola. Still to do today: finish 2 more web pages, testimonial page, start on some articles from a client, upload said web pages.

Hubby: slept until noon, showered and headed to his mom's for a cookout. Alrighty then.

Back to work. Oh, and I work full time at a J.O.B. Loads of fun I'm having. Truly.

If you're gonna clone someone, it should be Rob, Bev's husband. Someone said in another thread he gives 2 hour foot massages and serves breakfast in bed.

Yeah well they have their uses, (tingly, what's tingly)? After 30 years of marriage I forgot lol

Kim