Things have been busy around the farm the last week for the last week! We’ve had a work crew here building what will be my new office! I’ve worked from home since my boys were born over 9 years ago at this point and my office has always been in the center of the house.

When we lived in Mercer I didn’t even really have a dedicated space because I was only remote 3 days a week and I just worked wherever I was comfortable. The kids were little and I needed to be wherever they happened to be playing. Additionally at that time I was in a much lower level role and didn’t spend nearly as much time on the phone as I do these days.

When we moved onto the farm I set up dedicated space as I officially worked from home full time and I brought all my additional equipment home. The downside of that was that the only space for my “office” was in our dining room. It has worked well for the most part as I’m available to the kids and able to monitor what is going on while they are home and I’m working. But they are 9 now almost 10, meaning they are much more independent. Shortly after Farmer Brad moved in we made the decision that we want to try to get some space back in the house and felt that the best way to go about that would be to give me my own dedicated office space. The office will be home to everything for my day job as well as most of the equipment for my side hustles! Meaning I not only get my dining room back but also my guest room! We also built a storage space into the office building so that we don’t have to take as much stuff up and down the attic stairs that I might have fallen down twice last year!

So this week I’m thankful for Farmer Brad talking me into this project and that the building shell is complete so we can move on to the next phase which is adding electric and heating and cooling to the building!