Work from home moms, you make it look easy sometimes. 

Juggling kids, husband or partner, your business and outside activities. 

Needless to say if you also have a 9-5 job and side hustle, the struggle can be exhausting. 

“”Marriage still ain’t equal, y’all. 

It ain’t equal. I tell women that whole ‘you can have it all’ — mmm, nope, not at the same time, that’s a lie.

It’s not always enough to lean in because that s— doesn’t work all the time.” said Michelle Obama in Brooklyn during one of her international tour stops.

She went on to apologize for using profanity saying,  “I thought we were at home, y’all.

I was getting real comfortable up in here. All right, I’m back now. Sometimes that stuff doesn’t work.”

It’s a reality that moms know too well – that it ain’t easy trying to run the world and run your household at the same time.  

I’ve been working from home off and on for the last 9 years, starting in 2009. 

I was consulting for a university while attending graduate school.

A few years later after graduating, I got married and had my son.

The option to continue working from home was available so I worked from home for a year then returned to the workplace.

The experience of being home during those first years to breastfeed, hold my son and watch his developmental milestones were priceless. 

My ex-husband worked full time while I stayed home and worked part time.  

As life progresses and things change, one partner has to sacrifice for the other’s dreams. 

Michelle Obama had to do this for Barack as she was discussing. 

It wasn’t a cake walk following him while he pursued his ambitions to the White House and managing the duties of wife and mother at the same time.

The concept of “leaning in” that Sheryl Sandberg talks about in her book illustrates that you embrace risk and lead anyways rather than follow others. 

Can you have it all – marriage or a relationship, motherhood, money, and a life? 

How do you keep the juggling act going and balance it all?  

One thing that has been helpful is the mindfulness act of doing one thing at a time. 

Multitasking is sometimes nearly impossible.

I have learned to embrace one challenge at a time and be kind to myself. 

Watch the video below from my former blog 

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