I only got to participate in “take your daughter to work day” once in my childhood. Back before everything was PC and the idea was to expose girls to future career options, I spent one day at work with my own daddy. I was the only kid there that day because my daddy worked at a ceramics plant and kids weren’t allowed on the production floor but being a computers man, my daddy got special permission to bring me in.
I was in late elementary school, 11 or 12 years old maybe. I spent the day watching him typing away crazy codes on his computer and playing games on another one. I drew pictures and wrote stories (I’ve always loved writing). I watched the snow come down through the windows high above my daddy’s cubicle. I loved having the time with my daddy but definitely didn’t complain when we got to go home early on accord of the big storm that quickly moved in.
My kids have never gone to work with hubby for take your child to work day, it’s just never worked out. Instead, being a work-at-home mommy (and homeschooling mommy, too), every day is take your child to work day for me!
My kids know very well the inner workings of the blog from how much time I spend on the computer to how frustrated I get taking photos to how I post everything on Facebook and how I have to go far away for events sometimes that take hours and hours. And they hate most of it.
They hate how I’m always saying “just one more minute,” “I need to do one quick thing,” and “when I’m done with my work…” But I’m not going to feel guilty about it.
I’m not going to feel guilty about doing something I enjoy and helping to support my family (even if it’s just a little). I’m not going to feel guilty about working hard on something even though it means I don’t give my kids my undivided attention all the time.
Because while my kids may see my work as an unnecessary inconvenience now, I hope in the future it will show them how hard work and perseverance pays off. I hope that it will help teach them to pursue things that make them happy rather than merely doing what’s easy or pays the bills.
It’s not always easy to try to be a minimally successful anything with my kids around all the time and I spend my share of time feeling like a failure but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I wouldn’t choose to send them to school and daycare just so I can be more successful because at the end of it all, they are my greatest project and they will outlast any claim I ever make on the worldwide web. 
