Balancing your deadlines while you work at home

[Editusrex]

I haven't freelanced full time in almost eight years. But starting out in 1997, when my eldest was still a newborn, I remember vividly cold-calling prospective clients to check on freelance opportunities with a baby in a body sling. I'd walk up and down my hallway and kitchen area (I had a really long cord on the landline phone cause, well, cell phones, who knew??), crossing my fingers that kiddo the elder wouldn't wake up in the midst of a serious conversation I was having about my editing skills.

Experiences as a freelancer you all have had?