{"id":424,"date":"2013-11-05T19:08:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2013-11-05-oh-elusive-balance\/"},"modified":"2013-11-05T19:08:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:08:14","slug":"2013-11-05-oh-elusive-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/05\/2013-11-05-oh-elusive-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh elusive balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to write about being a stay at home mom, but today I don&#8217;t think I can. Why? Because I&#8217;m not sure if I am one.<br \/>\nThe summer months, while I was on salary continuance, I was supposed to be looking for work and developing business ideas. Because I&#8217;m obsessive like that (to do lists are definitely an addiction) that&#8217;s largely what I did, with child time in between.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m giving a go to just being a stay at home mom. Focusing on my daughter, our home, her growth, connecting with community. Except &#8230; I can&#8217;t do that. Because if I want to collect EI, I need to have an active job search. Because I have writing projects I&#8217;m excited about. Because I am trying to get into a business development program to get my consulting thing up and running. All those require time and mental focus, and I find it remarkably hard to do that plus be a present, engaged stay at home mother simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, childcare. We still have absolutely no idea what we are going to do for consistent, healthy, part-time childcare that our daughter will enjoy that fits with my working\/ finding work schedule.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is: I suck at balance. Being great at more than one thing simultaneous feels out of reach. And still: I&#8217;m going to give it another shot tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to write about being a stay at home mom, but today I don&#8217;t think I can. Why? Because I&#8217;m not sure if I am one. The summer months, while I was on salary continuance, I was supposed to be looking for work and developing business ideas. Because I&#8217;m obsessive like that (to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}