Two snow days last week, MLK day yesterday, and now my kid’s school has declared that today is a professional day. Four extra days off from school. And each of these “days off” are a wild dance with childcare and keeping your businesses running. This is a quick note on how to survive it.

First, let’s all agree that starting a business is like rolling a huge rock up a hill. Gravity is constantly trying to roll it back.  If you stop pushing for even a moment, whatever progress you made could be lost.  So, there is no such thing as a TGIF or a professional day. Every single day you get up and start pushing again (hoping gravity was asleep last night too. sometimes it wasn’t).

The worst is being on baby-patrol when you have critical business to deal with at the same time.  Often, because the kids are the constant, I deal with the business stuff and let the kids destroy the house.

This morning, on this lovely snowy professional day, I decided to ignore the flare ups for my allotted 4 hours of baby patrol and simply play with the kids. We played kid-boggle, daddy chase them, kids chase daddy, daddy mountain, and assorted other distinctly non-business games.  It was actually sort of relaxing.  My kids are very cute when they want to be :-)

So it’s 11AM and the rock may have rolled back a little, but I think it was worth it.

And, remember that I have lot’s of backup child care and my wife, http://danielacorte.com, who even during Providence Fashion Week is still pulling 90% of the child care heavy lifting. So, I’d like to end this by paying homage to all the single mother’s and single dad’s and other single primary care givers, without redundant childcare, struck down by a school professional day. Please employers of the universe cut them a break. It is a tough road to travel alone.  Allow your employees to realize that their kids are cute when they want to be!