The Joys of Working From Home

OK, I have to apologize in advance that I am posting YET another entry centered around my child's bathroom habits, but it seems to be taking over my life lately.

It is proving to be very hard to sound professional on the phone when you have a baby screaming in the background and a toddler talking to you. This is one of the downsides of working from home – inevitably when I am trying to conduct a work call one of my kids decides to act up. Today, the Washington State Patrol called me to clarify the POP Center's 501c3 status. I was on the phone with a captain and Abby starts howling in the background on her changer. So, I offer an apology and explain that I work out of my house. I then go into the other room and try to resume sounding at least mildly professional. At that moment, Joey walks in from outside (with my mother) comes over to me and announces in a loud voice “Mommy, I have poop.” I turn and try to run away in hopes that the officer might not have heard that lovely pronouncement and Joey CHASES me into the other room and yells –“Mommy, I have poop. Check” (turning his bottom so can look down the back of his jeans). Realizing I have no hope of escape I excuse myself to the officer and tell Joey that he does indeed have poop and I will change him as soon as I get done on the phone. I go back to my conversation, but realize it’s hard to be taken seriously when poop has become the main topic of conversation in the background. I think I need some sort of locked chamber to do work in.