Building a Website (and Trying Not to Forget the Kids)

When I first imagined starting Little Humans Co., I pictured it like planting a garden: a little work upfront, then just sit back and watch things grow. Turns out, building a website is less like planting seeds and more like laying irrigation pipe… with leaky fittings… in the dark… while your toddler is tugging on your pant leg asking you to come play blocks.

Every step takes three times longer than I expect. Simple things like “just add a header” or “connect the payment processor” spiral into whole afternoons of Googling, testing, and squinting at error messages. Then there are the API connections—because nothing says fun family time like wrangling authentication tokens.

But here’s the thing: I keep reminding myself why I’m doing this. Yes, I’d rather be building pillow forts with Genevieve or kicking a ball around with Declan. And yes, sometimes it feels like the website is stealing hours I don’t have. But in the bigger picture, all this effort is an investment. If I put in the time now—get the details right, set up the systems, learn the ropes—then hopefully what we’re building here will mean more free time later. More flexibility. More chances to choose family first.

So for now, I’ll keep chipping away at the never-ending to-do list, coffee in hand, probably muttering at my laptop. Because progress isn’t always glamorous—but with a little persistence (and maybe some luck), it just might buy me the kind of life where playtime wins more often.