Scenes from the Office: Breakfast

For 11 years, I had everyone in the family in the home...the last almost 4 years, just me and the dog...almost all the time. But Our Family loved it while it lasted. Home Office, Home Schooling, set your own pace, monitor and motivate. I've noticed one thing though, that lately my sense of the passage of time, I used to have the best internal clock, has disappeared ALL together! So I frequently find myself surprised when someone comes racing through to change and head to work, or my daughter away at school calls, usually at the same time of day. I really need to find a timer that really works for me. If I don't have the tv on but have lectures or debates on I can't tell how much time is passing. I LOVE being able to set my pace, and it's always a been a busy one!

The way you explained working from home is SO perfect. "seeming like a crazy person to everyone you meet in real life, and being isolated most days from these real life people who will likely find you somewhat strange after a little conversation." This is my life to a T! I feel so isolated and people don't understand why when I am home, I can't just drop everything and go out with them. Even with a flexible schedule! :) So glad it is not just me! Somehow makes me feel better! And those pancakes look amazing! :)

Two words... it's difficult. In my world, there is only one person that understands that what I do is working. lol Even today my husband came in and asked me if I was done playing on my computer. The playing I was doing was listing about 100+ kits into my newly constructed online web store (after the last one absolutely crashed). I lost all of my customer data, purchase history, etc. Needless to say, I don't consider it playing when I am up to my eyeballs loading kits back into my store one by grueling one.... lol John wouldn't get any pancakes either! xoxox Beth

Haha. I do not work at home but I long for the day. I guess it would take a lot of discipline though.

I've been working at home for a financial services company for almost a year now. For the most part I love it! My husband travels a lot and being home makes it so much easier for me! My son's school is literally right across the street so I'm able to walk him to school in the morning and pick him up in the afternoon. As for chocolate chips, I have both regular and mini in my freezer right now :-).

I work both from home and out of home, and I can definitely see the pros and cons for both. The main con working from home is that my clients know where I live, and I need to keep the house very clean (which is hard, as it's open plan.)

The cons of working out are that I can't snack, refill my water easily, and I can't sleep in a little, or do odd-jobs between students, like pegging out the washing :P

I also love the picture with the green mustache! I think that working and living together can be very hard sometimes and then you get funny conversations about pancakes! :) They look delicious!

That plant giving Jordan a funny mustache was the first thing I saw too!...LOL! I also work at home, very close to the kitchen, so I know what you mean Marisa! I feel I constantly keep going to the kitchen to fetch a warm cup of tea (and now I start to wonder how many liters of tea I actually drink a day haha.... must be quite a number!). Sometimes it's a bit difficult to focus on work all the time (and not to click on the Photoshop button and start scrapping), but I do love the comfort of working at home. One of the perks is that I can work according to my own schedule, so I'm very flexible in my time and because of this I am able to make time for the nice things in life when it suits me. :)

I think the last time I had pancakes was when my kids were still home ... they are now in their late 30's so that must be about 10 years. I'd rather have French toast but haven't had that either. I always served them with real maple syrup ... Ottawa Valley is known for the best maple syrup anywhere .... and fresh or frozen fruit. Okay ... now you have me wishing I had pancakes and that means I have to go out and buy a frying pan .... gave my old pans away when I moved last year lol ..... I do have chocolate chips though ... deep dark chocolate ... I make a yeast bread with walnuts, dark cocoa and the dark chocolate chips for Christmas and Easter holidays ... it is soooo gooood.

Are you serious Lorien? You don't have chocolate chips? What is this world coming to? :-) I have been out of the office-office also-- for nearly 3 years now-- and I wouldn't change it for anything either. Making time to "get out" in adult groups either for fun or professional networking helps a lot. And I wouldn't have given Jordan any pancakes either, Marisa. (Sorry Jordan... just sayin'...)

LOL! Oh I feel the pains and joys of working from home! Working on my 6th year out of the office-office and can say I would not trade it for anything. Though it does tend to get lonely for [adult] conversation at times, at least you and Jordan have each other. I have two 5 yr olds and a cockatiel as my convo partners for most of the day haha!