Hey Laura,

We have a couple of home businesses..but at the moment, they're still side business, DH still works in the city. In his old job, he used to officially work 2 days at home, but he was never busy, so he was always in and out of the office. We also only have an 11 month old at the moment, so probably a bit easier to keep amused than a 3 yr old. So not sure if any of my advice will be very sound! LOL.

Work hours - try and stick to the 9-5 work hrs being the strict hours.. anything outside of that needs to be flexible. Ours was hard, because DH is on the computer all the time in his leisure time as well, so we did have a few arguments over him in front of the computer ALL the time. He was always "working" whenever I asked...but you can bet your life he was surfing. LOL.

Perhaps you can setup a little desk for Talia, so she has time at "work" too? Perhaps that can be drawing or painting time? Then she mightn't feel too excluded and will happily go off and play outside for a while on her own too?

I hope you can find a way of doing it, as I reckon working from home is fantastic, and our goal is to be in a position one day for DH to leave his 'day' job and we both just work from home.

Dunno if any of that helped LOL. i'll be reading the replies here, coz I bet there'll be some great tips..which I'll be needing in the future!