We know how it is: Parenting, owning a business and finding the balance.
No one tells you when you become a mother how difficult it’ll be finding life balance after that tiny baby comes into the world. It’s easy to plan your life prior to children, easy to say to yourself and others that “this is how it’ll be and that’s that.” but what you don’t realize is that all those plans and all those goals change once you have children. I mean they might not change completely but that life balance is definitely rocked.
We get it. As mothers ourselves, oh boy do we understand. What is balance anyways? is it even a thing? because we know as a mothers of six children under the age of seven ( two who have critical illnesses, one with special needs and another with developmental delays) spread between the two of us it sure as hell seems none existent. In society today we are excepted to choose between our careers or our families, but what if we don’t want to? what if we want both?
We are modern day women who refused to choose, we refused to buy into the societal expectation that once you have children your goals stop. We chose to fit our children into the lives we already had and this included running a boudoir empire. We refer to our little gem of a business as an empire because to us that’s exactly what it is, we dream for a community who knows nothing but positivity and love from one another and that’s what was created through our online Facebook group. Most of all we wish for a space woman can go to be both mother and career driven powerful woman and we hope we developed this through the studio and it’s events.
When you’re a parent as well as a business owner you run into things like sick kids or PD days at school, these things cause hiccups in buisness like needing to reschedule appointments or meetings. For example, i’ve been working from home almost consistently due to flue season and i’m sure a good number of you reading this has gotten my “reschedule consult” email. As a matter of fact i’m currently writing this blog from my kitchen table at 10:30pm because it’s the only moment I was able to actually sit down and focus for more than twenty minutes at a time. We figure it out because we are moms and moms get it done. We make it work, whether that means skipping the morning shift to take the kids to play group on a PD day, or working at un-godly hours because we have been handling vomit from more than one kid all day and they just needed their mamma to lay with them.
What we are trying to say is we see you Mama and we got you. <3