I’m coming to terms with the fact that summer is seriously cutting into my ability to blog on a consistent basis. When I’m not playing Battleship, I’m packing snacks for the pool and when the sun goes down I’m assembling IKEA furniture and unpacking and organizing our house and taking a yoga class here and there. I thought that I would be able to adjust my schedule. I’ll get up early to blog! But I haven’t been sleeping well and can’t seem to drag my butt out of bed before the boys. I’ll stay up late! But I’ve never been one to burn the midnight oil with anything other than reading or watching episodes of Sex in the City. I’ll write when the kids are playing Wii! But there’s always dishes and laundry and unpacking from the pool and trying to find something to make for dinner.
So yes, I have a lot of excuses. And frankly, I’ve had so much adjustment in my life recently that totally revamping my schedule is not even on my radar. What I am going to do instead is use my free pass. I’m going to ease up on myself and know that you will understand if the spaces between my posts are a little longer. That some days I have to choose between sitting at the computer and walking across the street to say hi to a neighbor. And right now, I have to choose the neighbor because we’re the new kids and we have to try a little bit harder.
The blog is not going away. I’ve just got a few things to figure out. How to manage my time and my brain and the rest of my life. When summer hours turn into school schedules it will be a little bit easier to hunker down. I still have so much that I want to say and share, and I feel so grateful those of your reading and sharing this experience with me. So it is with only a teeny tiny bit of disappointment that I officially accept the reality of my summer hours.
And because I haven’t written anything that great, I’m passing on some things I wish I had written –
How to Raise a Kid Who Isn’t Whiny and Annoying
Chevrons Are Done, So Straighten Up Already
Latest Parenting Trend: The CTFD Method
Thanks for hanging in there with me – my secret hope is that by saying I’m not able to post as regularly that I’ll find some secret source of time somewhere that will magically appear over the next few weeks and make everything all better. A girl can hope…
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