I knew I was in over my head the day I got my surgery date. My daughter would just be starting to walk and my dad wouldn’t be. My husband was still working crazy hours and couldn’t take more than a week off, and my mother was still recovering from a fall. Every time I thought about it, I started to panic. “We’ll just have to get help” said my Mom, and thus began the 5 year journey of outsourcing almost everything. Managing family and home is challenging under the best of circumstances, and ours certainly were not; what we learned can help everyone.
Real Life Household Solutions
Kids, parents & spouse – you take care of a lot. I built the tools you will find here for myself to make managing it all much easier. Trackers and tips for planning holidays, childcare, elder care, housekeepers, nannies and everything else. Tried and tested by our family for yours.
My husband and I have juggled our family with demanding jobs that give us little flexibility. We have both worked 50-70 hour weeks, not including the commute, while caring for a child, aging parents, each other, and our home, in that order. I am over 40 and I am very proud of my résumé; I have earned it through blood, sweat and tears.
Simple & Practical Family Management
Survive, hopefully with your sanity intact and your relationships still standing.
Find balance as a working mom. Yes, it does exist. It is that brief moment when you feel that you are enough. These moments are fleeting, but I you can learn to have more of them.
Engage your child in the household chores, to take some of the load off you. Access the lists and guides to get your kids helping with dinner, laundry and cleaning as soon as they are capable.
We have tips that helped our aging parents keep up their independence while allowing us to worry less.
Time-Tested
I have helped care for my family & home since I was twelve, as did my mother before me, and hers before her. I was the daughter of a career woman and a military man, and that meant we all had to help out. This site is full of information based on practical, battle-scarred habits that have survived three generations of working moms in my family.
Necessity Demands Innovation
At 30 I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and warned not to spend too much time on my feet.
I had to learn another way to run my home. In the last 10 years, our family got bigger and so did the house. I wouldn’t have survived without learning how to engage others and use household help.
Learned, to outsource your chores without feeling guilty. Find out how to have helpers in your home without being uncomfortable. Leverage instruction guides that will walk others through chores to be done on your behalf, so that you don’t have to organize them yourself.
Affordable Options for Your Home
Later, when I was bedridden, I engaged help with things others have never considered. My creativity and organization enabled us to leverage all sorts of resources in ways no one ever imagined. Learn how to do the same to gain more time for the better things in life, without breaking the bank.
And when you’ve learned all of this, you will get the greatest gift: Time and Peace of Mind.
