I own a couple of businesses working from home, I have this blog and I am a mom. My husband works full-time out of the house and then comes home jumping into #girldad life until our heads all hit the pillows.

We have been together for 16 years, married for 8 and parents for almost 2. Like many of you time has just FLOWN by because we have gotten sucked into our daily routine life. We work most of our hours away, filled with going to the gym to take care of ourselves, music class/gym class for our daughter, home to eat food, toss our daughter to bed just to put our heads on the pillows 10 mins later. We have only a few weeks of vacation....most of which is spent visiting family back east because we don't have any here. Then getting back home just to need a vacation from the vacation because it's not always RESTORING visiting family even though we are grateful to have a family to visit.

You feel me!?

Right now because of this lockdown life looks SO different! (Obviously...but in other ways too.)

We wake up and enjoy coffee together before our daughter gets up. (most days lol isn't always predictable) Chris will work on and off taking calls and virtual meetings, but in between the breaks he's running around playing airplane with our daughter or tossing in a load of dishes to help me out. One of us puts her down for a nap and we have a slow lunch. Sometimes filled with a TV show or even a game....other times its just conversation. Simple conversation. After our daughter wakes from her nap typically we all get outside for a bit before my husband's afternoon fills up with virtual meetings again. We walk our golf course, play with our dog, but it's just this quality time. Running up and down the hills with our daughter, picking up sticks or leaves. We all cook dinner together (rarely do I have brain cells on a normal day to even think about what to eat let alone cook it) our daughter gets books and baths which is the time my husband LOVES and has more energy to do it now. He takes his time and enjoys his 1-1 time with her while I clean up and enjoy a quiet glass of wine alone. Before we both put our own heads on the pillow we enjoy the TV show that we share and will either work on a puzzle or just snuggle on the couch (my love language).

You feel me?!

Now, don't get my wrong the worries of money and job secuirty are in my mind. However, I am able to let them come and go because the positives of being stuck inside right now far outweight the negatives.

Chris and I have always dreamed of living a life where we could both work from anywhere. However, while I do work from anywhere (as long as I have internet lol) he has been tied to an office. We have never had true time freedom...until now.

I could live this time on replay for the rest of our lives. This family time is filling my heart so full I may explode. I am so grateful for this time, for time is something we will never get back. There will be aspects of this new normal that I take with us and never go back to our old ways.

I am writing this starting at my husband doing "wheels on the bus" in our living room with our daughter...so I will sign off for now they are calling my name.

xx

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