1. I hid the laptop. No, seriously. I do my little online tutoring thing in the basement guest bedroom, which is seriously one hundred miles away from the rest of the house. This is great for concentrating on tutoring away from every-sleeping-body, but not so great for blogging when I'm not by the laptop. Even if I think about blogging during the day, I have to hike one hundred miles to do it. So usually I think about it and do nothing instead.
2. I have this guilt thing about tutoring when the kids are awake. Well, that's not totally true. I mean, I DO get guilty, but I've also found in the last few weeks that every time I get online for two minutes or more, someone gets hurt. Running into a counter top, slugging Brother, crying hungry Baby, you get the drift. So then I feel double-guilty that I've neglected my kids for two minutes and it's resulted in agony (kid-agony, that is). Weirdly, they don't get hurt or seem to mind when I'm washing dishes, scrubbing floors, or feeding another kid instead of being with them. At least not in such extremes. So that leaves me with...
3. I enjoy sleeping. I mean, enough so that I'm not a total crab, which lately hasn't been happening. I mean, I haven't been sleeping a lot, not that I'm not a crab. I have been a crab. So when the boys go to bed between 7:30 and 8:00, I am ready.to.collapse right after that. When C doesn't need to eat at 4:30 a.m. before I tutor, then I think I'll have a little more time to blog, since I'll (theoretically) be sleeping more.
4. I lost the camera. For about two weeks. I had literally picked up my phone to call a lady whose house I'd last seen it at when I found it. Of course, I've got a ton of pictures on it, which makes me dread going through them, uploading them, etc. Which makes me feel guilty that I haven't posted pictures of our lovely three lately. Vicious, vicious cycle. But at least I found the camera!
5. Um, have you NOTICED the weather? We've been playing summer every spare afternoon minute. And the laptop collects dust.
6. People say, "You must be so busy!" Well, yeah, but not much more than any other mom of at least one kid (wait... ). Basically, that means we spend a lot of time reading The Cat in the Hat and nursery rhymes, singing songs, doing the fun kid stuff. And though I love posting about our life here, I guess I like living it more than blogging about it. That sounds like a really defensive "Take THAT!," but I mean it in the best possible way. And I think you dear readers understand.
Happy Living!
2 comments:
Um, I think once a week is plenty. Be kind to yourself! You've got three beautiful munchkins and your tutoring gig. That's a pretty packed schedule. And while I do love looking at pictures of the kiddos, the human species survived for thousands of years before digital cameras and instant photos. We'll probably keep surviving if it takes a few weeks to post updates :)
Hugs!
Katie JB
Thanks, KJB. You rock. :)
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