How does it feel to stay at home/work from home? Thats the big question.

I dont have any regrets and feel thats the best decision I made. Though I must admit there have been times when I have felt very lonely as I like to be with people. Mainly because days pass by and I dont see anybody other than me, H and D1.

Few months after I quit my “office” job, I joined H to help out in his venture. When D1 was about 20 months old, decided to put her in day care. For 2 reasons, I would be mentally drained out by end of the day and part of the frustration started showing in my behaviour. Secondly, she was growing and she seemed to be a very social person, she would be very happy when she is in a crowd.
It was not easy taking the decision to put her in day care, I would think I failed in being a home-mom and the whole idea of quitting my job was to be with her. Ended up sending her for 4 – 5 hours a days. This is when I started helping H out with his ventures. Life seemed to be much better as I was still spending quality time with D1 and also getting my space.

Work-wise, I spend less time, but more productive and much more challenging stuff.
The other day a friend of mine commented – ‘I dont know how you live your life like this. I would go nuts if I dont have a schedule planned ahead of time’ . I dont know, I like this life style. It is tough and needs a lot of discipline. Because I need not get up at 7:30 and get ready for work. There are times, when I work till 2 Or 3 in the night, sleep for few hours, drop D1 in day care in the morning, sleep again for couple of hours. Most of the time, there is not much of a difference. I still wake up around 7:30, spend some time with D1, get her ready, drop her at day care. Come back home and start my work. Work until 3 in the afternoon, pick up D1 from day care. Feed her snack and then usually go to park OR hang out in library for couple of hours. Come back home, cook, talk to friends etc., Pretty much what I did when I went to work.
Difference is I dont see many people and again days pass by when I pretty much seeing H and D1.

Overall, after doing this for about 2 years now, I think its a very personal decision. It might work for some and might not. Personally, even though I have times when I am not sure, mostly I am very happy with the decision I took.

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