Mommy By The Book » busy http://www.mommybythebook.com Attempting to navigate my way through motherhood Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:06:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Ahem… http://www.mommybythebook.com/2011/08/12/ahem/ http://www.mommybythebook.com/2011/08/12/ahem/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:48:01 +0000 Rachel http://www.mommybythebook.com/?p=494 Uh…this thing on?

*Tap tap*

I believe this is what is called a weblog, yes?  You…type?  And it goes out to the…Internets?  It’s been so long I’m a bit rusty on how all this works.

Dear bloggy friends, I have not forgotten you.  I’ve just been blasted busy.  Yes, really.  Busy and exhausted.  I . . . → Read More: Ahem…]]> Uh…this thing on?

*Tap tap*

I believe this is what is called a weblog, yes?  You…type?  And it goes out to the…Internets?  It’s been so long I’m a bit rusty on how all this works.

Dear bloggy friends, I have not forgotten you.  I’ve just been blasted busy.  Yes, really.  Busy and exhausted.  I switched jobs again at the end of June, which has been a wonderful and glorious thing.  This new job has like, people!  Who talk to me!  And a break room with cookies and popcorn!  And a giant panda pinata that sits at our receptionist desk and is rigged up to talk!  I’m not even kidding about that last one.  It has been a good, nay, a wonderful change.

BUT, here is the question I am left pondering this summer:

How does one…

Work 40 hours a week

Do laundry, and fold all that darned laundry

Scrub the bathroom on a somewhat regular basis

Play at the park with the daughter

Hold Family Home Evening

Plan and execute a birthday party

Prepare healthy lunches in advance to take to work

Organize the closets so they don’t one day bury you alive

Keep your car inspected, registered, clean, full of gas, and with air actually in the tires to boot

Pull weeds

Practice THE ORGAN for church during the week (and recover from the ensuing stroke every other Sunday)

Exercise regularly and count calories

Constantly work to arrange babysitters for this, that, and the other without making all your family and neighbors hate you

Go on dates with the husband now and then to make him feel special, and sometimes even put on lipstick or do your hair to look pretty

Enjoy quality time in the mountains

Scrub stains out of your carpet (a hopeless task…)

Keep fresh batteries in the smoke detectors so they don’t chirp at you at 4:00 AM

Hang out with extended family and be a decent daughter, sister, aunt, daughter-in-law, etc.

Commute an hour each day

Research and clip grocery coupons in desperate effort to not go broke

Help husband with homework

Scrapbook the precious moments of your child’s life

Catch up with girlfriends as to preserve valuable friendships

Take meals to neighbors in need

Field a million questions about your reproductive goals

Read books to the little one

Recycle

Think of ways to be creative and valuable at work

Keep a blog or two updated

Etc., etc., etc.

So, Internet.  HOW????  How does a single person do this and more?  Is this what is called “being an adult?”  I’m… pooped.

So blog buddies, can we be friends again?  I’m sorry for being neglectful.  I’ve just felt a little busy, is all.  Love you!

]]> http://www.mommybythebook.com/2011/08/12/ahem/feed/ 2 Back to life http://www.mommybythebook.com/2010/05/15/back-to-life/ http://www.mommybythebook.com/2010/05/15/back-to-life/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 18:10:52 +0000 Rachel http://www.mommybythebook.com/?p=216 Well, I’m happy to report that the family has finally returned to a a healthy status.  Brady had to go back to the doctor early in the week because he still couldn’t hear, and it turned out his ears were still infected, even after a full round of antibiotics.  He got another shot of . . . → Read More: Back to life]]> Well, I’m happy to report that the family has finally returned to a a healthy status.  Brady had to go back to the doctor early in the week because he still couldn’t hear, and it turned out his ears were still infected, even after a full round of antibiotics.  He got another shot of meds, but it’s been almost a week and he has yet to hear clearly out of his right ear.  It’s crazy to me what he has gotten sick with lately- RSV and ear infections.  It’s like I have another infant in the house.

I swear Claire came out the other side of her illness even cuter than before.  She truly lights up the room with her happy personality.  She has developed quite the sense of humor and jabbers all day long.  I could just eat her up, she is so stinking adorable.  I’m sure she’s getting tired of having me kiss her chubby cheeks, but I definitely can’t get enough.

So now it’s back to the daily grind of juggling schedules and racing from one place to the next as we try to go to class and work and fulfill our duties at home.  It is exhausting, but I do feel good knowing we are being productive and filling our time with good things.  Some days I don’t even realize there are people leading lives that allow for leisure time, until I hear someone mention they went shoe shopping or they went out to pick up a new necklace.  Shoe shopping?? I can’t even remember what it is like to browse through a store, looking for something to buy.  Occasionally I will try to squeeze in a few minutes of online shopping, but being able to actually wander around a store, touching and trying on merchandise, sounds like an absolute dream to me.  I’m sure someday we will reach that point again.  For now, it’s best if I just pretend a life like that doesn’t exist and that everyone spends their time either trapped in a classroom or trapped in a cubicle or running somewhere in between.  My alternate reality is quite the sanity-saver.

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