Self employed

You have to ask the question sometimes is it worth it?  I don't think any one, unless self employed, actually realises how much work one puts in.  I met a lovely lady the other day who said she was doing 17 hour days to get her business up and running, and yet how many salaried people would work a 17 hour day.  Well my eldest regularly does a 12 hour day.  Yesterday I started at 8am and was still packing soaps and running labels off at 10pm.  If we really equated how much our time was worth I wonder if we would even be earning the minimum wage.  I know in ten years time when I become another Anita Roddick I will look back and know it was worth it, but at the moment it is hard slog.  My two daughters are great, they are both working with me over the weekend doing a fair each.  Grumpy as I call my son did the shopping yesterday, the main thing we needed was dog food the main thing he forgot was dog food.   So I really really do accept that the male gender is something we ladies will never understand.  I was talking the other day to another Mum and we came to the conclusion that when their voices change they loose the art to communicate and learn to grunt!!!!