My Balance: Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen

love Smitten Kitchen and love this interview. don’t know how i missed this earlier.

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Thanks for this great post by Deb! I follow her blog religiously (yours too!) and was so excited to find this post about the ups and downs of every day life. Such an interesting series! Keep it up!

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i so love this post. deb’s blog is one of my favorites and i have sent ever friend i know to her site. she is darling and jacob is adorable…. bravo.
looking forward to the cookbook!

loving your series… even though i am single this certainly helps me learn how to juggle as well… never easy. i feel as though red ticking is my baby… xx

what a great, easy-going outlook on life! I love the idea of you working on your bed every day, just so you can be close to your son. Bravo for juggling life as gracefully as you do!

I loved this interview…this is my first of the series sooo..I am sure I will love them all. I loved the comment about her mother…exactly you just do it.
I love her blog and her kid is crazy cute.
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After reading all of these motherhood posts, I do have to say that I like and agree with this one the most, if only because she does get to be around her kid all day. Granted, I may be old-fashioned (or the fact that I’m…not a mom yet (heh)), and I know that these posts are probably discouraging these kinds of comments, but I feel like a mom is a mom first, and a designer, chef, photographer, or whatever it may be, second. And I do feel like the little moments like breakfast with your kids, or sending your kids to bed are the important things that builds relationships between parents and children. That’s something they should be doing, not a babysitter.

But! I have loved reading all of these posts! I find them all very interesting and I’m glad each of them were so specific! Great series, Joanna! And thanks to all the contributors!

Joanna, thank you so much for this. Your honesty is appreciated!

That was great about being a working mom for sure but I also REALLY wanted to hear more about the blog!

You are going to make me fritter away my afternoons reading all these terrific interviews, aren’t you? I adore Deb and the more I read of her, the love affair just grows. She’s such an inspiration. I have recently become a WAHM (after years in a traditional office environment) and I’m slowly figuring it out. Deb’s comment about the assumption of women doing the juggling is spot on. I guess it’s because we are the glue and we take on everything needed to hold it all together. Thanks, Deb and thanks to you, too, Joanna.

I am so excited about this series Jo! I am a mother to a little girl, almost 1!, and I work as a full-time touring musician with my husband. We are both songwriters and performers, he manages our career and books our schedule and handles the road duties. I often express to him that I worry our about being a great wife, mama, working gal and homemaker. We have a unique situation because there are two of us at home to share in the responsibilities, but running your own business is hard. It’s even weirder to be away from home so frequently, but we do it as a family and it works. I was almost in tears reading this because it can be so rewarding, but also isolating at times! Thanks for focusing on working moms in a way that doesn’t make us feel like we have to do it all, all the time, always right. Somehow it all works out in the end :)

She’s my favourite food blogger in the world! Baby Jacob is also so so very cute.

First of all, what a darling kid you have!!
Second of all, I totally understand about the juggling part.

Third of all, yes, do make time for yourself, pedicures are a great idea and chocolates too!

Wonderful to read Deb’s routine. I’m a big fan of her blog and recipes, always turn out to be winners in my home.

I’m a work at home mom too and the balance and juggle always stays, each time I master one aspect, something else gets thrown in the loop. Now, I just try to keep my cool through it all.

SK was the first blog I ever fell in love with about 4 years ago. I still read it to this day. Great post!

The mommy, work, home balance is tricky…thanks for the glimpse into another working mom’s day-to-day. I just recently left the corporate world to start my own website business and have a third baby thinking it would be easier. I’m not complaining…I love being home in the summer with my othervtwo precious ones…but it is still a juggling act! Jennifer

I love Smitten Kitchen! I must have made her homemade Oreos a dozen times. Yum…

Great interview!

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Yay! Thanks for featuring one of my favourite food bloggers! :)

What a beautiful baby! I admire your ability to balance working at home without a desk and making sure your son has a great upbringing. My mom stayed home with us while my dad owned a bar, and I’m very happy I got to be raised like that. No matter the struggle, it’s always worth it in the end, especially when your son grows up and has memories of just him and his mama time. Bravo, keep it up! I love your blog!

About the distracting chatter in cafés… have you tried music? My mp3-player is saving me a lot when I have to work on train rides. Somehow I manage to block out the music while concentrating but not the chatting people.

Great interview. I love the pictures!

So refreshing! I dream of working from home someday and my husband and I just keep putting off kids just because we don’t know how we are going to balance everything! thanks for the encouragement. :)

I think it is so important to remember that we are all “figuring it out as we go”. It seems sometimes like you are all alone, and the only one with the time management problem. It’s a real boost to hear from others and realize that you aren’t alone, and that everyone struggles in some way to make it all work.