Recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that I work at home. I love the idea that I don’t have to leave my apartment and travel on the subway to an anonymous office. I don’t have to make conversation with people I don’t really care about. I can be in the comfort of my home, with my kids around me.

However, there are challenges to working at home. I am not an inherently organized person. Therefore, I often find myself in a bind, faced against a deadline and extremely overwhelmed. This feeling of impending doom is also compounded by my children’s needs.

At the same moment that I have to transcribe raw footage for Extreme Couponing, my son, Ari wants a peanut butter sandwich.

When I’m writing about my bumpy road applying for graduate school for gradschools.com  Samara, my daughter, needs a diaper change.

On top of everything else, I don’t have any alone time. I can’t seem to figure out the balance between working and spending time with my kids.

In fact, at this point, I feel like the television is a better friend to my kids than I am. Needless to say they’ve come good pals with PBS Sprout.

Don’t get me wrong, they do play together for short periods, but when Ari and Samara get bored, and I need to finish a project in order to make money and put food on the table, I resort to turning on the boob tube in an act of sheer desperation.

Here’s where I need some guidance. All you work-at-home-moms out there, I need your help! How do I balance work and family life?

editors note: This is a very common problem. Cecily wrote about her solutions in this MomCrunch post. Earlier, I vlogged about my struggles and my readers gave me their tips. Please share some more tips here for Sarah, thank you so much!