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Executive abilities come in handy
DeAnn Warfel said the skills that helped her climb the corporate ladder of a health care company are often the same skills that keep her household running smoothly.
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DeAnn Warfel of south Oklahoma City helps her daughter, Rebekah, 10, with an assignment. Warfel, a former corporate executive, home schools Rebekah, and her older daughter, Madison, 13.
BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN
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That's just one of the things Warfel has learned since she left her life as an executive to stay home and educate her two daughters, Madison, 13, and Rebekah, 10.
"I went from organizing a corporation to organizing a home,” she said about her former job as an executive with PacifiCare.
Organization is key particularly in the mornings when Warfel's daily tasks actually begin before she wakes up. Warfel, 40, said she has a timer on her washing machine that allows her to have one load of laundry washed by the time she gets up. She tries to have at least three loads washed and dried each morning.
After the girls awake about 7 a.m., they eat breakfast and do their chores like vacuuming and feeding the family's two dogs and one cat. By 8:30 a.m. Warfel and her daughters are heading to the classroom, a cozy room, furnished with computers and organized with cabinets and file shelves.
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