Working from home with kids? You are officially superwoman!

I am fortunate enough that I work from home around my kids and family - I can structure my day and be here for them as well as achieve in a stellar business *ahem* and maybe even keep the place clean and from falling around my ears.

I am blessed to do this - no question.

But let me tell you, it's less like "balance" and more like "survival of the fittest"!

My darling four year old - love her as I do - takes it as a personal challenge when I pick up the phone.

Try making sense and sounding professional let alone actually delivering quality information with a child climbing up the back of your chair. I am deadly serious. She inserts herself, somehow, between me and the chair back and proceeds to climb onto my shoulders.

Is she interested in me at all when the phone is free - not a chance, but as soon as I pick it up there's a gleam in her eye and I am the target. It's not like she is lacking attention necessarily, I'm sure it's a deliberate test of her skills on her part.

Did you know you can talk on the phone and take notes and make a sandwich all at once? Try working around kids and you will learn skills you never imagined you might have. If only they had a use in the wider community.

I have employed many many devices to help me get my work done well, from headsets and ipad's (for her not me) through to chocolate if necessary (and she believes chocolate is always necessary).

At least she is past the crying baby stage. If you are working around small babies I salute you, because I have been there. Babies are allergic to the ring tone on your phone - any ring tone -  it is guaranteed to wake them up and I also guarantee that you will, at some stage, clean up vomit or poo or something else revolting that has just exploded in front of you with a phone nestled on your shoulder and a blissfully unaware client on the other end of the line.

And so, to fellow mums working from home - you are indeed superwoman, never doubt it - and to our children, challenge accepted, big school is never far away, and I do hope that when you look back on these years you appreciate our presence.