Ever since I started my fantastic dream job, I’ve been busy. I’ve been REAL busy. I am so busy, I have no time to poo. I have no time to remove a splinter from my foot that’s been hurting for 2 whole days! I have no time to see to my hair. If you see someone looking like a mad woman who looks like me, it probably is. I brush my children aside and spend spurt moments with them. I am doing the best I can. If they have to eat overnight food, so be it. I do the necessary to keep them clean, fill their tummies from hunger and do whatever it takes to keep them quiet so I can work in peace.

VERY DIFFICULT!!!

And because my lovely husband works damn late nights, I feel as though I have THREE full time jobs. Sure, I have the day maid that doesn’t come some times because the agent needs her for other locations. She’s good in as far as an extra pair of hands is needed at home – to wash the dishes, to clean the house, to do the laundry; but I still need someone who can manage T2. She’s a right DEVIL, that one. Generally, she’s quite good in the mornings and allows me to work consistently from 730am to noon which is when she starts getting tired and whiny and starts looking for me. I’d then quickly put her to sleep and have another quick dash at my work desk before the chaos of T1’s return home from school. Once T1 returns, there is hardly any work done whilst I pander to their list of exhaustive demands. If they’re not asking for things, they’d be so noisy that I cannot work anyway. My next work shift begins after they’re in bed about 830-9pm, and I work best then with the tranquil sounds of dark. I almost always get carried away till 2-3am but I cannot help it. I was born to be a workaholic. I love work and take pride in what I do.

But this lack of sleep shit is going to bite me in the butt one day. I know it. But I cannot stop it. Despite the Hubs nightly nags that I should be in bed, I will even pretend to sleep and then continue after he’s asleep. I wonder why I am so driven. It must be withdrawal symptoms from the work force after all these years of not working!!!

BUT.

With everything else, life needs to be a balance of the sums of things.

I want to witness how T2 struggles to master putting on a shirt button. I want to be around when T1 comes home heart broken one day by a hurtful comment made by nasties. I want to be able to let go when T1 walks away from me when she takes that first flight without me. I want to clap with ecstatic pride each time after T1 descends the stage after her many standing ovations. I want to hold my girls tight when we sit on that ski lift going up-up-up! I want to catch the seconds of T2 smelling her own shoe and then putting it on her head. I don’t want to miss that look, the look he gives me that spells LOVE, true love. I want to continue us being a raspberry family. I don’t want to miss a thing.

But of course, we all know that isn’t possible! So what do I do?

I hire a Personal Trainer and I make myself a time table so that everybody gets a piece of me. Even if it’s only a small piece. At least I’m distributed. And over time, the small pieces add up into memories to last a life time.

Moments……………….

Treasure them.

I know I’m going to………….

Watch the video below and reflect. Have you treasured your moments? (if you don’t see a video below, try refreshing the page for it)

 

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.