This is my last month of maternity leave, my last month of splitting my time between my family and my writing. After this, it's back to my part-time job, three days a week and splitting my time between my family, my job and my writing.
My friend Sophie (she's awesome check out her website here) wrote a blog post about working part time and then running a side business and she nailed it completely. You can read it here but essentially it's about the balance and worries we have around pursuing a passion, whilst working and looking after a young family.
I worry I won't be able to do it, I worry that I'm wasting my time pursuing something that doesn't (at the moment) bring in money, when we all know that money makes the world go round. I worry I'm going to be too tired, too busy to write, that I won't be able to give that side of what I love enough of me. Where do I take the time from? My kids? My family?
I've done it before, with one child, I worked and wrote before work sat in the car, in my half an hour lunch break, after she'd gone to bed. I've got two now, does that make it harder? Probably.
We're looking at options, how we can make this work for everyone and it's hard. If money were no object, I would spend all my time writing and doing the one thing I love the most, but alas, my bank account is not limitless, childcare is not free, so until then I will continue the juggle.
Continue putting in the extra hours, the extra effort because I love it. It's easy to think that everyone else has it easy, that because they only post about writing that's all they do but so many of us are living double lives as we try to find the balance between our passion and the rest of it.
How do you find balance?
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