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School Holiday Mayhem

If you work from home or own your own business and caring for your kids at the same time, you would understand this - when school holidays roll around, there's mayhem with the clock. It spins round and round and round endlessly, as if it has no care in this world (well...technically, it doesn't) and no regard for the things that we, humans, have to do and achieve.

Because I do not have to wake up for school, everyone learns how to use the snooze button more often. Which often means that work starts slightly late. Then there is lunch and then dinner. There's cleaning. There's work. There's the stress of trying to get the school stuff together to be ready for the new school year.

Man, things are tough around here at the moment.

Sometimes I wish that I have an office to go to. Like when it is time to stop work, I stop work and be with the family members. At this point in time, I switch the PC off (which is my office) and tune into facebook and twitter on my smart phone. More importantly, I close the door to the 'office' and try not to open it at all.

That is the only way I know how to leave work alone.

I slip into the room that I call the 'relax room' to read, watch a little TV and talk with the kids before sleep. If they go to bed early, I might do a little bit of this.


It's a very relaxing pose to do. No effort whatsoever except restraining the mind from thinking about more things than necessary. =) For 'instructions' (it's a no brainer), read about the Salutation Seal pose here.

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