Blogger Laryngitis

I have blog laryngitis. Lots of things swimming around in my head, but not enough spunk to get them onto the page, out into the light. I'm going through a lot of personal changes this summer. Unbloggable, but not unbearable. All good. But, along with the kids, it's taking all my energy and focus.

Rather than blogging, here's a glimpse of what I've been doing:

• Laundry
• Dishes
• Grocery shopping
• Going for walks
• Lifting weights
• Trying, unsuccessfully, to talk my 7 year old into homeschooling (I'm willing to force the issue depending on how 2nd grade goes)
• Going to the beach
• Going to every park on the North Shore (there are lots)
• Going to the library
• Reading Charlotte's Web to the kids
• Reading every magazine I've purchased in the last two years (not really, but close)
• Reading (and enjoying) Becoming Fearless
• Hunting for locally grown vegetables (I dropped out of the co-op last year and couldn't get back in)
• Hunting for a Wordpress template
• Filling up the pool/setting up the sprinkler
• Applying sunscreen
• Applying bug spray
• Picking up all the crap that infests every surface of my house
• Again
• And again
• Trying to get my husband used to the idea of a fourth baby ("Well, if we get a season pass to Water Country for next year, I won't be able to use it because I'll be pregnant." *grin*) (that's me grinning, not him)
• Giving my niece all my baby stuff while telling her I may get pregnant again (man, I can be an ass) (just give me $200 and a WalMart! that's all I need!)
• Schlepping kids to the speech therapist and the doctor
• Going to library book sales (like I need more books)
• Writing in my kids' journals
• Enforcing quiet time
• Becoming a Scribbit groupie
• Learning the ways of the Webkinz (one each, that's my rule)
• Deciding to buy a treadmill
• Deciding to join a gym instead
• And back
• And forth
• Feeling nauseous about the $10,000 fence we're having installed (contracters, why do you all hate me?)
• Potty training my 2 year old
• Watching movies, both of the kidlet and the adult variety
• Joining writing groups, networking (a bit), chasing down payment from clients, signing up for seminars (OK, one seminar)
• Cooking (!)
• Taking my vitamins
• Eating corn on the cob and tomatoes (it never gets old)
• Fighting with my 7 year old when it's time to stop playing his favorite computer game: Star Wars Legos (damn that game!)
• Dropping stuff off at the Salvation Army
• Not wearing make up
• Not blow-drying my hair
• Becoming a better mom
• Enjoying my kids
• Wishing time would stand still