Blogging, blogging, blogging, and the house starts to fall apart

[Gail Klanchesser]

So I did it, I finally started my first real live blog, http://cprmom.blogspot.com. I'm having fun with it! But I'm noticing that between the blog and the online networking, my house seems to be falling apart. Not literally of course, but little things aren't getting done, which as we all know leads to bigger things not getting done.

So today I took an online break. Checked email, made 1 quick twitter post (since I am SO addicted to twitter), and turned off my computer. Went out & posted some flyers for upcoming GS cookie sales, came home, made the little kids lunch, cleaned the house, etc. Was quite productive and while the house isn't perfectly clean, its looking a whole heck of a lot better.

Never even visited the blog today and I'm okay with that. The next goal is to figure out how to balance my real life with my online life. I can't visit every site I'm on every day. I probably need to unsubscribe from some sites, but pretty much each site I've joined has something in it I see of value so I'm not in a rush to jump ship.

So if you email me or post a comment to me and I don't get back to you for a few days please don't despair. I'm not blowing you off, I'm enjoying more of my real life with my real family. They're the reason I work from home and keep the crazy hours that I do. They're the reason I spend more hours volunteering now than I did at the University when I was both working AND attending grad school.

We're hybrid moms because we're doing it all. I had it pretty down pat when it was just family, home, small business, and volunteering. The networking - both online and locally - had thrown more into the mix and upset the small amount of balance that I thought I had. I'm just starting to figure out how to create that new level of balance for me to do it quasi-successfully. It will never be perfect, if I figured it out perfectly then I wouldn't be me. Life is more fun when things don't always go perfectly anyway!