In anticipation of baby Abigail’s arrival we have decided to move some of my office upstairs into our bedroom.  I know what you are thinking, mistake!  But as an Entrepreneur the one thing that I will not be getting with this new baby is any paid maternity leave.  Of course, I could have set some money aside for this time and taken some time off, but I just couldn’t squeeze anything else out of my checks so here I am needing to work with a new baby.  However, I am not discouraged at all, I know that I can make this work.  At least this time with a new baby my expectations about having a baby are more realistic this time.  My plan is to work a few hours a week, and I can certainly do that with my office upstairs as that is where I am going to spend the majority of my time.

When we brought Lily home from the hospital I was in shock at how hard taking care of a new baby would be.  Before Lily’s arrival I read just about every baby book out there, was on Baby Center everyday reading about new babies.  However, I had no idea how much my life would change with a new baby, I basically felt like my life was over, at least the life I used to know was over.  I recall within the first few days of bringing Lily home Louis and I crawled into bed for the night at 7:30pm, we were so tired and overwhelmed at how hard raising a new baby was.  At this point I just wanted to pull the covers over my head and start over and I wanted to burn every baby book I had read because I felt that they really didn’t prepare me for much.

Now, fast forward 4 years and we are more prepared and realistic about raising a new baby.  We know that it is going to be hard at first, she is going to cry a lot at first until we can get her all figured out and get settled into a routine.  For now, I can work at least an hour a day and slowing increase my client load as Abigail gets older.  I know it is going to be tough, but I know I can do it!

The other reason for moving part of my office upstairs is so that Lily keeps her flippin mess upstairs in the playroom.  Often, when I working downstairs she drags a ton of her toys and stuffed animals downstairs so she can play and be near me while I work.  I love her dearly, but she can really make a mess and that drives me bonkers.  In the past I have used our older laptop upstairs and logged into LogMeIn to control my work computer downstairs but Holy Cow sitting at Lily’s playdough table and trying to work was just not cutting it for me!  So, in my defense I did try to make it work without another desk upstairs.  So, we headed out to Ikea to find a desk that would work in a small area but not look funky in a bedroom and we found this great combo of a desk with drawers and it looks like a dresser when it is closed up.

Here is a picture of the desk when it is open

Here is a picture of the desk when it is closed