Peter Facinelli Quotes

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.

I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

I think, as a working mother, what is more challenging for me is that I get to balance both work and home and prioritise my kid's life.

When I'm at work, I want to be with my daughter, and when I'm with my daughter, I probably should be working, and it just is what it is.

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.

It's been really stressful being on the road a lot, especially when you're a dad. You miss your son a lot. But you gotta make it work because you get to live a good life. I have to sacrifice.

Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.