Girlfriends, episode number 219, five ways to make working from home workable.

Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy

and family living. This week, we are talking about working from home because you are probably

doing that in some capacity these days. Let's get started. Hey, girlfriends, how are you?

Hope you're surviving your quarantine in style.

Hope you are enjoying the Easter season in whatever that looks like in your home these days.

It's been such an unusual time, right?

So I record these a week ahead of time. So we're just

coming off of Easter Sunday as I'm recording this and Holy Week. What a surreal time. What a

beautiful time, though, also, honestly. What a beautiful time to be celebrating this sacred season

in the hearts of our homes. I was really struck by that,

even though I had my moments where I was sad, where it was challenging, where I felt a loss or

disappointed in what Easter was looking like this year. I also had many moments where I was just

deeply grateful for the opportunity

to celebrate and commemorate and observe these holy days at home with my family. One thing that I want

to mention, because maybe you can keep it in mind for next year, and it's so simple to do,

is on Good Friday, we decided to just keep silence in our house

between the hours of 12 and 3. This is something I've heard about on and off through the years,

and we've done some form of this, you know, like no video games or movies or whatever on Good Friday,

but never quite so deliberately as this.

And when the kids were littler, it probably would have been a lot more challenging.

But now that the kids are older, it's easier to just say, hey, during these hours, we're not going to be, you know, chatting.

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