WAHMS - Can We Really Have it All?
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Phew! I have been soooo busy the past few weeks between preparing for my son’s 4th birthday party, writing posts and articles, marketing, training, preparing for my new dayhome, at the end of the day when the kids are tucked safely in their beds and I have cleaned up the whirlwind of the day, I just sit back in total exhaustion and think,
“Can I really have it all?”
Be home with my children, follow my passion of marketing and writing and getting paid for all of it? The answer is, “yes.” But there is a catch, I have found, having your cake and eating it too, means developing a taste for a different kind of cake like carrot instead chocolate.
I have spoken to many moms who said the picture of their lives in their minds was completely different with reality once they actually became full fledged moms. Many changed careers, wrestled with juggling career and family, dayhome or daycare, dance, soccer and feeling as some part of them was lost or sacrificed to childbirth. Many can’t even grasp the concept of still following or discovering a new passion once they have children. Why is it we are taught that sacrifice equals pain?
Sacrifice can actually open your world to new insights and new passions and goal. It can be a constant balancing act yes. I am grateful I live in a city where we have been going through a baby boom and a large majority of moms are discovering how to be entrepreneurial and while balancing a family, so there is a large community of mompreneurs, information and support.
Yes, it’s still a crazy life, but you can actually fill in all the holes so you feel fulfilled in all areas of your life. I have seen so many moms these days discover through creativity and openness new passions create new businesses such as the local mom here Kathryn Bechthold, who started Mompreneur magazine (founded in 2005 with a circulation now of 50,000) and Mompreneur Networking Group Inc. to help other mompreneurs find support, mentoring and information or successful mom, Wanda McArthur who founded Luscious Bags; who was formerly a family therapist wanted to be her own boss where she could have her own family priorities come first.
photo by Cynthia Turek
Cheers! Kelly,
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