1. My business is inundated right now, mostly due the fact that I ran a Groupon that just expired and a bazillion people turned in their orders last week.
2. My husband just started school which requires him to go to school and do homework in addition to doing all of the driving for our business. Altogether, this really cuts down on his ability to enable me to sit around while he meets all of my needs doing all of the cooking and cleaning and chore managing. Fortunately, I 'm not pregnant any more and I can walk again, so theoretically I should be able to manage all, or at least some of these things. Except for the fact that he is so much better at running a household than I ever have been but I'm working on it. We take turns making dinner now which for me requires putting it down on the calendar way in advance and receiving several notifications leading up to my turn. At the high recommendation from my little sister I am making this beef stew on Tuesday. I'm pretty excited about it. I love beef stew. (Disclaimer: I did somehow manage to feed everyone every day while my husband was working out of town half the time, but it seems that I spoil very quickly, and having stay-at-home chef husband for a few months definitely spoiled me.)
3. I try to do some schooly things with some children every day. If that sounds sketchy to you, well fine. I probably have a different educational philosophy than you and no plans of explaining or defending it here.
4. I have a little tiny baby, although really, tiny babies sleep a lot, and if they aren't sleeping they are nursing allowing ample web surfing time (aha! I've found my justification!). And she's not really tiny. She's fat. At 8 weeks (a few days ago) she weighed in at at 12lbs. 10oz. She has multiple chins and great wobbly jowls. We just watched Madagascar 3 the other night and there is a circus bear - a big fat circus bear with a little tutu riding around on a tiny little tricycle. She looks just like that bear. Seriously, I was quite stricken by the resemblance. Perhaps I can find a picture.
Granted this picture is a little blurry, and you can't quite see all of her chins, but I think you get the idea. And don't she and the bear look alike?
(Disclaimer - I enjoy hyperbole and I realize the she's not actually that fat. Just humor me.)
So, as I said, I've spent a bit of time aimlessly surfing the web recently - mommy blogs, Catholic blogs, forums criticizing blogs, debate message boards, etc. I came away with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I was terrified at the notion of blogging again. Apparently "successful" blogs are surrounded by controversy and criticism. There are whole websites devoted just to the trolling and trashing of bloggers. I think I'd be much happier to not achieve that level of success. At the same time if one does something, surely one hopes to be at least a little successful?
Which leads us to the other hand. On which I found that I missed blogging and wanted to start back up and do a little bit better at it than I have been. Honestly, I have no idea how to do all of the technical stuff that is supposed to make for a good blog. I've heard that good blogs are supposed to include lots of links...for some reason. Which is pretty much the only reason I included links above....well that and shameless promotion of my business, the website of which also needs a ton of work, if only I knew how.
So, with some reservations - qualms, if you will - I may start blogging more often. Then again, I may just plan on it and go dark again for months. Oh yeah, and I've completely forgotten how to use commas properly.
