Mums of the world, have you ever felt that between the life you had before being a mother and the life you live now there is a huge gap?

Sometimes I feel like I am somehow another person: before mum and after mum. It is such a journey!

In a day I was a part-time teacher and a full-time front desk officer in a hotel, full of feminist ideas; in the other I was married, changing diapers, breastfeeding, making food, cleaning the house, having sleepless nights ( you can bet this was my biggest challenge).

Four years have passed since my boy was born.

One year after, believing in the old myth that breastfeeding mums have more difficulty to get pregnant, I was giving birth to my second child. This time it was a girl.

In the meanwhile, we changed three times the country we were living in.

With all these changes, my husband has been a Superman, providing us with all we need and I cannot complain about him. He is a tough one. Perseverant, fighting for his family, full of integrity, hard-worker. There is just some romanticism missing, but nobody is perfect, right?

I have been a mum at home. However, four years without working and coming from a family where every woman works is really challenging and from some months I have been feeling a big internal pressure to act, to make something, not only to improve the income of the family but essentially because I really feel the need to do something again.

Every night, when going to sleep, I feel happy to watch my children grow and have the privilege to see it, but I also feel a frustration about the fact I am inactive, about the fact that all the time I have during the day goes only for them ( with so many changes in terms of country, there is no family around to help and no nursery until now).

I have to find a way!

You may tell me I can just find a full-time job and put children in a nursery. It is an option, but without family around, if my toddlers are ill, I will have to miss work and in the country we are living school time is really short, during the first years ( 5 hours per day).

One day, my husband came home and offered me a Kindle and said:  “ now you can read at night in your bed!”.

You can bet it made the difference.

It has passed half a year and since then, after children are sleeping, I dedicate at least two hours to read about options to work from home, parenting and other subjects.

So, it is here that the journey starts.

In this blog I intend to share with you the knowledge I have acquired while reading these books or articles, willing that together we can find a way to pass from Mum to CEO and in case you think there is something I must correct ( even with English, that is not my mother tongue), please let me know.

I wish you can enjoy this journey as much as me.

Let’s sail away together!