It is nearly Spring Vacation here and I am dreading it! Not with the full-on dread that I feel when school is about to let out for the summer, but enough anticipated heaviness to know I am not experiencing the same gleeful eagerness my kids are. You see, when the kids are out of school, it makes it very hard for me to concentrate, focus and actually get the work done that I need to get done! Even though I’m used to working amidst certain amounts of chaos and distractions, I do often wonder what it would feel like to truly be able to focus…
With three teenagers, if even one of them is home–there’s music blaring, the phone ringing, the clang and clunk of feet going up and down the stairs, calls for me to tell someone where the soap, toilet paper, laundry detergent, WHATEVER is and that’s just the beginning of all the distractions. I feel a bit guilty even starting to complain since my kids are older and pretty independent. I know many of the folks here at the Families.com Home Business blog have little ones who are under foot ALL the time. So, maybe we can commiserate with each other and fantasize about being able to feel truly, really and genuinely focused on a project or work–even for just an hour or two!
Imagine being able to actually problem solve and complete a piece of a project through from start to finish? For me, as a freelance writer, I wonder what it would feel like to sit down and write a piece or do an entire day’s worth of work without interruption and distraction–I have a stereotype of the hard-working writer shut up in her “room of her own” for a big chunk of the day, emerging just in time to join the family for an evening meal. Instead, my work comes in paragraphs and chopped-up pages. But then again, maybe I’m so used to things the way they are that I wouldn’t be able to write a word? After all, what would I write about if I didn’t have all this living going on in my house and all these interesting distractions?!
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