{"id":2633,"date":"2013-10-15T10:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2013-10-14T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T01:22:22","slug":"sons-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/sons-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Not on my sons’ time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally, I was going to name this post “I finally have 2\u00a0jobs that I love, yet neither one of them pays”, but recently, I came to a different realization. At a blogging<\/del> social media conference that I attended last weekend, I was overcome with emotion on my last day. While the speakers were great (actually…they were\u00a0AMAZING),\u00a0it wasn’t\u00a0because of their stories or their inspiration that I was overcome with emotion.\u00a0 Rather, it was because I realized\u00a0that I\u00a0have strayed in the last few months.<\/p>\n

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At Blissdom 2013 Canada<\/p><\/div>\n

I went to the conference in hopes of finding my blogging “aha” moment, figuring out the secrets of blogging that everyone but me\u00a0knows and figuring out how to take my blog to the next level.\u00a0 Instead, the conference helped me get my priorities straight. I love blogging! I really, really do.\u00a0 In fact, it’s my passion.\u00a0 I’ve finally found it.\u00a0 It’s something that I work super-duper hard on out of my own motivation and spend hours on, on my free time, staying up till midnight almost every night, and it’s something I can’t stop talking about to just about anyone who will listen.\u00a0 But what got lost on me along the way is that blogging isn’t my priority.\u00a0 My kids are!<\/p>\n

As a stay at home mom, it’s hard to “find” yourself.\u00a0 Your day is consumed by your rug-rats telling you where to be and what to do.\u00a0 It’s something that I choose to do and it also happens to be something that I love doing.\u00a0 But along the way, I also fell in love with blogging.\u00a0 Maybe it was my outlet, maybe it was a way for me to keep my mind “sharp” while not in the work-field and maybe, it was a way for me to communicate with other like-minded adults, even if it was online.\u00a0 Whatever it was, it was starting to come between me and my other job… my first job… my priority!\"Family<\/a><\/p>\n

In the last several months, while at home with my kids, often I was not with them.\u00a0 Sure, I was in the same room with them, watching over them, keeping them safe and feeding them, and loving them, but I wasn’t always “in the moment” with them.\u00a0 I was too busy<\/strong><\/em> blogging! I was all consumed by it.\u00a0 I fell asleep thinking about blogging and woke up thinking about it.\u00a0 I\u00a0was full of\u00a0ideas for stories, how to improve my writing, how to pitch to brands, how to make more money from blogging, how to increase my readership, etc…\u00a0 It was stressful, yet fun.\u00a0 I truly enjoyed it…. until I realize that it was taking priority over my boys.<\/p>\n

The thing I walked away with from\u00a0the conference, was something that I already knew, but forgot along the way.\u00a0 It’s that family comes first.\u00a0 My boys come before blogging and it should always stay like that. I don’t want my boys to grow up and remember their days home with me being filled with me “working”.\u00a0 My work is to be with them, plain and simple.\u00a0 Worse, I don’t want them to grow up and learn from me and when I want to spend time with them, I don’t want them to respond back and say that they’re busy on their computer.<\/p>\n

Maybe if you’re reading this you’re saying to yourself… ‘yeah, so what’s the point Maya? It’s\u00a0easy to see that you were off’.\u00a0 But that’s just the point.\u00a0 I was so caught up in it, I didn’t see.\u00a0 Perhaps, by writing it down, it’s a way to keep myself in check.\u00a0 Since I returned from the conference I’ve vowed to myself to keep my two jobs separate.\u00a0 That doesn’t mean I can’t “take a break” and check on my blogging stuff while the kids are napping or playing nicely on their own.\u00a0 But not when my job is to interact with them, to guide them, to teach them, to read to them, to be their playmate, to chase them around my house in a race or to pretend we’re shopping or to play baseball or to get all geared up to be a hockey goalie. I want to be there in the moment with them and to relish in the years that I’ll never have back.\u00a0 I want to be able to look back in\u00a05 or 10 years from now, and not have a single regret.\"Adult<\/a><\/p>\n

So I guess that even though I didn’t learn how to make a living off my blog or how to become the next famous blogger, I walked away with something even more valuable.\u00a0 I’m “mommy” first, and “mayahood” second. Even if that means I’m a little tired in the mornings…<\/p>\n

Have you ever\u00a0had to juggle two things that you loved so much? How did you do it? Any tips or\u00a0advice would be greatly appreciate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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