How exactly do they do it?

Have you ever had one of those weeks that has just left you reeling? Conferences, interstate travel, the loss of a memory stick, doing things on the wrong day...twice!!! And well just getting yourself dressed in clean clothes everyday for work. (I wore the same clothes two days in a row this week, although it was in different states so I figured that was perfectly fine)

I went on holidays a few weeks ago and had the most wonderful time, however I feel like I got back and was hit by a bus. Or rather hit by my life....and slapped in the face a few times just for fun!!!!

I have always thought that sometimes it is almost better to just not have holidays. (note...I did say almost)

Somehow the not knowing what life is like on the other side, makes dealing with living this life, just that bit easier.

Over the past few years, people have often asked me, how I manage to juggle it all, how I manage to get up, go to work, drive hours to work, look after a child, start a business and my response has always been that "well you just do what you have to do and when you have a bigger goal in sight it makes it that bit easier"

However after I have returned from my holiday and spent time on the other more relaxed side, I just want to make it clear I have absolutely NO IDEA how I have been doing it. Not only that I have no idea how stay at home mums do it, how working mums do it and I have even less idea how single mums with more than one child do it. Anna Bligh (first woman elected in her own right as a state premier in Australia, mother of 2) and Dr Fiona Wood (WA's only female plastic surgeon, Australian of the year, mother of 6), how you do it is completely beyond me.

I count myself as pretty lucky, I have an adorable little girl (well mostly perhaps except for that moment this afternoon when she told me I wasn't her mum any more and threw her food on the ground and did everything that I asked her not to), I have a supportive family and I have a new business to focus on and daycare three days a week.

Still I am left wondering, if I don't know how I have been doing this, this where someone was telling me what I had to do for 40 hours of the week, how on earth do I know how I am going to do this next bit?