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Today is another busy day for me. I’ve got my hands full with work (I need to prepare a new branding package for a new client and work on some website changes for another client) WOW – don’t know how I’m going to pull it off. My mom usually comes on Tuesdays and takes my daughter out for the day, but she cancelled the last minute! What to do? We didn’t have daycare arranged on a last minute notice… so, we’re biting the bullet and trying to KEEP CALM.

This is what happened so far:  we had breakfast, my husband went off to work on his stuff, I played with my daughter some princess and prince pretend play then I left her to play on her own. I came to my home office and started to work. Half an hour later, she came in requesting for more playtime… SO – I got her to keep busy with her own laptop!

She likes to be around me when I work and she’s good at using the computer already. She will be 3 in 3 months, I think it’s a good activity for little toddlers to keep them stimulated with some challenging games online. This activity will be for probably an hour, we’ll see what we’ll do next. She’s currently playing Little Pet Shop online games. There’s lots of puzzles and good eye-hand co-ordination…. I tell myself it’s the future anyway – she’s learning lots. Inside though, I am so guilty for NOT having the time to spend with her doing more craft projects, like this one, or reading our favourite books….

To prove my point of how busy I am, I only noticed the dead leaf on my plant on my photos ;P LOL
I’ve got my MOM mug next to me and you’ll notice my daughter’s still in her pyjamas – guess what? So am I. LOL

I’m curious to hear how other work-at-home moms handle things. If you have some tips on dealing with multitasking with work and kids please do share. Yes I realize that the first step in NOT to waste time on doing a post in blogworld! Hey. This was my 1/2 hour break that I certainly needed to happily sacrifice to share my moment with the world ;)

Here are some other resources for Work At Home Moms in blogland: Work At Home Mom Revolution, My Work At Home Mom Blog, At Home Mom Blog, Mommy Enterprises

I received some sad news yesterday from a friend. A young girl, at 29 died of lung cancer. I wrote about her briefly a few weeks ago when I posted about wheatgrass. Well, natural therapies or not, a serious disease like that will get you sooner or later – unless there’s a miracle – and there ARE miracles but not for Candice. She only had a few months notice that her time has come.  We met a year ago on a vacation, and we stayed in touch since. She was so naturally beautiful, vibrant and a pleasure to have met. I am incredibly saddened by this. I’m still in disbelief and in sincere sympathy for her fiancee and her family.

While thinking about Candice I started to create this digital poster for her family that I’m planning to print on canvas and send to them.

This art canvas is just perfect because my white magnolia was in full bloom when she died. I hope her family will like it – it’s just a little gesture of sympathy I want to share.

I spent the day just constantly reflecting on life… how LUCK has a lot to do with how things unfold for us all. When difficult times are in front of us, we need to surround ourselves with the people we love and help each other  through the days ahead.