Good luck. There's no way I can ever get any work done with children in the house. I get interrupted every 20 seconds minimum. Kids at home = not even trying to do work or I'll just lose my patience.

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I totally get that. It was like that for a couple of days for me but I pushed through, now the novelty is over and all that’s left is camaraderie.

It’s probably catalyzed by how we have massively structured our lives around their open time-space though, so they aren’t anxious or rushed in much. (Rural homeschool)

They certainly aren’t starved for my attention , so I appear to have broken out past the wake of interruptions.

The olders really enjoy and respect the “this is a quiet working space” boundary. The youngers come and go and give me hugs, but I do have noise cancelling headphones for sure.

I also lowered my coffee intake to just one cup with food because I was so anxious and 2-3 black.

The biggest revelation for me here was that I had no choice but to make this work, given all other constraints I refuse to let go of for this season of life (lots of kids, homeschool, steady job, etc)