Earlier this week, I was interviewing a source for a story using the video chat service Skype and my 7-year-old son Cheiron made an unexpected, unwanted appearance in my home office.

Typically, my kids know not to come in mommy’s office when the door is closed but on this day there must have been a full moon or something.

The boy did everything he could to get in on the conversation, even making up a sign to tell me that the oven had reached 350 degrees and he wanted me to put his pizza snack in so he could eat it.

My time was limited with the source, George Eves, founder of Expat Info Desk, because he was in France and it was 9 p.m. his time. Clearly the guy was tired and the last thing he probably wanted to do was talk to an annoying reporter from MSNBC about Americans working abroad.

What would you do in this precarious work-at-home situation? (more…)