I normally do a good job on balancing my work responsibilities and home life, but sometimes a heavy workload threatens to tip me off balance.  Here are some great tips on how to manage work and home.  If your starting to feel like your going to crash and burn, check out my for tips on how to avoid work at home burnout.

5 Tips for Balancing Work and Home

By Craig Rowe  

Most people understand how difficult it can be to balance their work and home lives once they get married and have children. Somehow it seems that work life or home life is always encroaching on the other and causing problems at work, at home, and many times both. However the following five tips are great options to help with balancing work and home.

Make a Schedule

The best thing to do when trying to balance work and home is to make a schedule. Know how much time you have and schedule your work time and your home time. Then, you will know when you need to schedule work and home events. This will make your life significantly easier and you will know which activities fit into which time frame. Just make sure you stick to your schedule.

Share Responsibilities

Many times work and home responsibilities can become overwhelming because one spouse is handling more of the responsibilities than the other. So, learn to share responsibilities at home and each spouse can be responsible for their work. Also, older children should have some home responsibilities as well to help parents balance work and home.

Leave Work at Work

Balancing home and work can be difficult because it is so easy to take work home. If you really want to balance work and home then you will always leave work at work and keep home a sacred place for family and home activities.

Dedicate Weekends to Home Activities

A great way to keep home and work separate is to always focus on home activities during weekends, or at least on days off from work if you happen to work on weekends. When certain days are home days and other days are work days then it makes balancing work and home considerably easier.

Plan

The best way to balance work and home is to always make a plan. There are tons of tips that will help you, but there is nothing like making a plan and then following the plan to really balance work and home. It might be difficult, but if you have it planned out and follow the plan you will be surprised how easy you can find a balance.

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The holidays are over.  My birthday is over.  The kids are back to our school schedule, I am back to my normal work schedule.

Reflecting on 2007, I would say it was one of the best years of my life.  I gave birth to Baby A (after two consecutive second trimester miscarriages).  Our oldest graduated high school.  We sold the rehab house that we thought would never sell.  We spent an incredible week in Cancun!

There were many good things to celebrate, many hard times that we pushed through, but the bottom line is we are all healthy and we made it through another year…together.

I’m looking forward to this New Year and have great expectations for myself and my family.

Happy New Year!

All is well in the world of Mom.  We are incredibly busy right now in the midst of preperations for the Christmas holiday.  Personal tasks combined with my crazy work project, have left me little time to post and read my favorite blogs.

I think back to this post: 99 Days Until Christmas and wonder where the time went?  Now we have 5 days left, and I’m trying to enjoy each day to it’s fullest.

We normally mail our Christmas cards during the first week of December, but we were a little late this year.  At least they went out!

Mr. Martha Stewart Dad, loves to embellish our cards with sealing wax imprinted with our last initial - “P”.  This year, he used a green and gold wax and it turned out beautiful…here is a pic:

Last week I baked up a storm and mailed a goodie box to each of my co-workers. They love the Christmas snacks and I really enjoy doing this for them.

Well, I’m off to do a quick conference call and then have lunch.