Today I intended to post the first in what I hope will be many Red Dress Meme posts (writing challenges that I will explain later) and a book review. Well actually, I have several things I’m wanting to post. There’s that meme, the book review, an article covering a controversial topic and the introduction of a new segment I’d like to start doing.
But who has the time! I promised myself and my family that they come first and they’ve been “firsting” me to death over here! They can’t help it, though, they’re sick and over half of them are small children (unless you count the cats and the bunny, in which case they are furry mammalian creatures).
Anyway, I find myself posting yet again about how I failed to churn out what I wanted to! But that’s life, right?
Seriously, I actually IMed my husband while he was at work today to rail against the universe. You should have seen it, I couldn’t have been more Emo if I had been wearing black nail polish and eyeliner and had a funky hairdo. I was going to give up. I wasn’t going to set goals anymore because MY goals always end up late, missed or just destroyed. Yeah, yeah, you know the line: “Somebody call the Waaaaahmbulance”.
After seeking validation for my pitiful existence in the blogosphere, I shut my laptop and focused on my kids. We had a fun day though I must say that a heat index of 103 can jolly well kiss my arse.
I’m actually sitting on my bed, next to Morgan, who is snoring peacefully. My little girls and I cooked dinner together and ate it while Ethan graciously went to bed a little early. Abigail had fed him his dinner while I cooked (the cuteness of that scene was totally worth the orange-stained baby. He sure liked the spaghetti, though!). Then we cleaned it all up together (seriously, even my 3yo cheerfully cleaned up!) and watched Ponyo.
Incidentally, I LOVE Ponyo. So sweet!
Then I snuggled with Abby in her bed, nursies and all and came in and tucked Ms. Morgan in. Despite my intense emo-fueled frustration of earlier, I realize that the most important things I needed to do today are taken care of. I definitely can’t complain. I even managed to nearly finish my entry for the meme that ended today. Oh well. It was fun even if I didn’t actually finish it in time.
In a few minutes, I’m going to head over to hang out with my best friends and play Exalted. If you don’t know what that is, suffice to say, my geek is hanging out all over place.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Stay cool!
It sounds lovely. A day caring for those little ones.
It really was lovely. Thanks for popping in!