Being a Mom is Complicated
Being a Work-At-Home-Mom is even more so. So here is my one request of you. Please do not call!
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to stay in touch with my friends and family. I also run a business where interacting with other businesses daily is essential. Balancing my cordless phone while nursing a baby and researching the answer to a business question is almost impossible. How many times have you dropped your dinner, left your screaming toddler or almost killed yourself running to answer a phone call that you are expecting to be important, just to have it be a telemarketer? Or worse yet, gotten your baby settled in for a (hopefully long) nap, just to have forgotten the phone in the nursery, right when it rings! Naptime (aka ‘worktime’) is over!
Email is amazing! Not only can I respond when I get a moment to myself, but I can also choose NOT to reply to the cold caller that wants to sell me new SEO optomization. For business emails, companies will never know that I am listening to a 2 year old temper tantruming, or sitting in my PJs eating peanut butter cups for dinner.
Who’s with me? Maybe I will get rid of my phone plan all together! I would love to hear from you, just please email.
What are your thoughts. Are you a phone only kinda person? Do you prefer texts? Or are you like me, email all the way?
TOTALLY AGREE!! I get people who call and then are upset that I never answer. Perhaps it’s because I am juggling a preschooler, a toddler and a baby – plus housework, running around, my business, and maybe a second or two of personal time in the day. (Usually not, lol.)
Nothing is more annoying than the doorbell ringing though …
Email all the way…I don’t even have a business cell phone/number or use the home cell phone that often! I tried giving a business contact the best time to call me once and seriously it was a good thing she was a mompreneur herself because it looked crazy! And as the kids get older trying to use the phone does not get any easier. Although phone calls like my spam email might be sort of funny once or twice…