Home Is Where the Office Is

Working from home can sometimes be deceptively luxurious. You might think you'll have time to start dinner, or run a load of laundry, or vacuum a room - and occasionally that might be true - but most often you don't. Dinner prep is usually just as rushed for me as it is for any other working parent. But then you hear through various news reports / books / blogs / magazines that family dinners are so important!  Your family will fall apart if they don't eat dinner together!!! Well, maybe that just feels like what "they" are saying.   Despite a decent attempt, dinner feels like a battle to be won, not an event to be enjoyed. I guess it was a bit of a relief to find that my fellow Home Officers often feel the same way. With meetings and deadlines and carpools and homework and soccer and softball and conferences and dog walks and heaven-knows-what-else, getting anything in our kids' stomachs for dinner can feel like a triumph! But I know that the...