Balancing Motherhood and Work-Related Travel
As you may imagine, traveling for business does not return easy when you're also the most caregiver in your family. That's the case for me. I have 2 boys, ages nine and half-dozen one/2. They are school aged, which helps, but what about those in between times when the kids get out of faculty and before dad gets home? Or, those times when travel conflicts with minimum school days or school vacation days like four days off throughout the week as a result of it's President's Day?
The short answer: it's mind boggling. All those "things" you are doing as a mom that come back naturally that you don't normally download to anyone else. Oh, like packing college lunches, creating certain the library books are in the kids' backpacks when it's library day, giving the cat her medicine on specific days throughout the week...you get the picture. Now you've got to write is all down for your spouse to handle. And, you have got to coordinate childcare between the time the kids get out of college and the time your husband arrives home from work. This implies several phone calls/emails to/from friends and relatives soliciting for help (the kids like their play dates). It additionally means notifying the lecturers where the children are speculated to be within the event of a snafu, and it all wants to be clearly made public thus your husband is aware of where to choose up the youngsters when he gets off of work. Are you tired nonetheless?
I produce an Excel Spreadsheet broken out by day. Everything from what day the garbage cans want to go to the curb to ensuring that the Valentine's Day cards (that I worked on with my youngsters ahead of your time) get put in their backpacks so they'll exchange them during their parties.
In prep for these visits, I create dinners ahead of time (and freeze them) and/or we arrange for straightforward meals. I do all the laundry before I leave. Of course, the responsibility of my travel will not fall entirely on me by any means. Whereas I am away, my husband steps up to the plate - using that Excel Spreadsheet as a guide to accomplishing those commonplace "things". (He in all probability appreciates me more after I come, an additional profit, and I am appreciative for his support.)
When I am not traveling, I provide to require my friends' kids for play dates, particularly after they have work or an appointment. I am lucky to possess a supportive cluster of friends and nearby relatives.
Do I feel guilty concerning traveling? No. My husband supports me during this effort. And, I grasp that I've worked my darndest to confirm a sleek transition throughout my travels by designing earlier than time. I feel my business gives back in thus several ways that - from our product that relieves nausea, a very common and debilitating problem; to our charitable donations to Fertile Hope; to providing income to our employees/consultants and doing our part to stimulate our economy; to serving as a job model for my boys (working mindfully towards a goal); to providing income for my family to help us meet our personal, monetary and philanthropic goals.
Business travel as a mom could not be simple, but it's worth it to me. And, frankly, those things in life that do return easy are typically not those that we savor. It's people who we tend to work laborious at that we tend to sometimes find the most memorable and the foremost rewarding.
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