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I only work sporadically (graphic design/illustration) but when I do it is at a small desk in our living room - and I only do it during naps or after LO is in bed. If I have a big project on it can be pretty hard - I don't have childcare but dh is also self employed so sometimes he will take an afternoon so I can hit a deadline. I wouldn't be opposed to doing a little work while LO is around, but I just cannot focus enoufh, even if he's occupied in another room.

I only WAH occasionally, but I have a desk with a proper phone and a computer. I can not work with my son home so he goes to his normal day care. I also need to work during business hours to attend calls, so there's only so much I can do outside of business hours.

I have a home office, and the kids go to preschool because it's too hard to get much work done with them around.

I have a home office that doubles as the guest room, so I have to vacate for the occasional times we have someone using the sofabed in there.

My company has an office in Chicago, where I'm based. On days when my parents watch DD for the full day (usually Mondays and Wednesdays), I work from the office. On the other days, I switch off with DH, who also works from home with flexible hours. Then we both work on weekday and weekend evenings, although we try to take at least an hour to watch a TV show together or read in bed.

Depends what I'm working on - sometimes on the couch, if I'm just reading documents, sometimes at the kitchen table, if I only need one screen, and upstairs in our den/office if I need my big monitor.

I'm only PT so it's as needed. Usually after they go to bed (hard to do) or on Thursdays they're in daycare.

I WAH from my home office. Some of my colleagues work from home and some work from one of our offices. It is a FT job and we are required to have childcare whether we work from home or an office. I have a certain degree of flexibility with my hours, but I'm generally expected to be online and available during working hours.

I just stated WAH (online summer school--fingers crossed it turns into all year!) and I am keeping R in daycare. There is NO way I could work with her at home. I have a home office but depending on what I am doing I work my way around the house. If I do this full time I will need to adjust my computer equipment and get a large desktop screen, an 11" Macbook isn't WAH friendly!

Sometimes home office, sometimes Starbucks by LO's daycare, sometimes another coffee shop by my mom's house (she watches LO 2 days/week).

@Ra: lol! Love your shirts

I am self-employed and WAH. I have a home office, since I need two large screens in order to work. My two go to daycare as it is nearly impossible to work with them underfoot. I do work when they are sleeping if I have to work over the weekend or at night, which happens a couple of times per week.

I work in our home office or occasionally my bedroom if DH is home and needs the office. We have a pt nanny for 30 hours a week. Back when I didn't have as much work I squeezed it in during nap time and after bedtime, and then I often logged hours on the couch.

Sometimes I like to work at Starbucks or wherever because it can be a bit easier to concentrate.

It's hard for me to envision being able to do more than 10 or 15 minutes of real work without help. Maybe if the little one is napping and the big one is watching a show.

I didn't see your additional questions. LO is in some kind of childcare Monday - Thursday. Daycare or Grammy care or a babysitter if either of those is not available (our daycare operates on a school calendar so there are closures).

I bill about 20 hours per week but I work more than that. In the freelance life, you don't get paid when you are doing admin stuff like making to do lists, invoices, etc. and you don't get paid if you take a break to eat lunch or change out the laundry or even run errands which I do like having the flexibility to do during the day, but try not to. All that to say, LO is in about 30 hours per week of childcare and I still wake up early and stay up late to get everything done. Fridays are my day "off" and I try not to work but I may do a little during nap time or when she is watching a show.

@Mrs. Lion: I really hate it when I have to work evenings, it feels like I spend all day working hard looking after DS, and then once he goes to bed I start the working day again, there is just no break! I try and keep evening work as a last resort as it does not do good for my happiness levels.
I used to find it very hard to get into something when I knew that DS could wake up at any moment (after a couple of hours at best), but over time it has just gradually got easier to shift gears in my brain and get stuck in straight away. I find it helps to spend some time breaking down my work into small chunks so I have a better chance of finishing something - though obviously that may not be possible depending on the type of work.