Yes, that is right, nobody in my family knows (well maybe my Mom, I can’t remember) that I have a blog, much less one that seems to center around knitting.
With three kids, and a husband that works late alot, I don’t have much time, so I’m not even a prolific blogger. During the day I come up with a lot that I want to blog about, but if I even get the time to sit down in front of the computer, I can’t remember what I was going to say.
As an example of my busy schedule, here is what I did last week:
Sat: Took the two girls to swimming lessons, then met my husband and son at the Tae Kwon Do championship that our TKD school participates in. We were there until six, but came home with 5 trophies! My eldest DD won a championship trophy (not in top 3) for board breaking, and a 3rd place trophy for sparring. My DS won a 3rd place trophy for forms, a 2nd place trophy for board breaking, and a 1st place trophy for sparring. For those of you interested, my DD is a red belt, and my son is a high-purple belt. After we returned home, we crammed down some dinner and ran off to the haunted house at our school, to return home at 8:30pm
Sun: We were off to soccer games by 12:45 to be followed by pizza parties. Returned at 3:30 or so to start carving 4 pumpkins – one adult and 3 kids (the youngest is 3) – not recommended! But here is the result:
Mon: Two oldest said they were feeling sick, so I let them stay home, only to realize by 10:00 or so that they couldn’t be feeling that bad, based on their behavior, so I took them into school. I then took the youngest DD and went shopping (I don’t even remember for what) and came home in time to put her down for a nap, and take a snooze myself. I had to go pick the kids up at 3:30 but came home instead of doing our usual afterschool activities (due to “illness” from the morning). I then spent all afternoon, and then after bedtime making cookies for DS’s school party the next day.
Tue (Halloween): Put oldest two on bus, took youngest to preschool. Spent 2 hours knitting and listening to Cast On (episodes 15 & 16 – I’m a bit behind) at Panerra, and drinking a cup of coffee while I waited for the preschool Halloween parade to begin. Went to the parade, then I went home and within 15 minutes of being home got a call from the school nurse that DS was complaining of a stomach ache, was white as a sheet, and needed to be picked up. So…I brought the plate of cookies into school, and went to the nurse to get my son. I came home, and crashed in the recliner while the youngest two watched TV. By 1:15 (the time his party was supposed to begin) DS said “I think I feel good enough to go to school”. I said “too bad!” The day finally ended with neighbors and their 2 kids coming for pizza, and all of us going out trick-or-treating together.
Wed: I went and volunteered in my DS’s classroom all morning, and came home to spend 3 hours working on laundry, preparing dinner, etc. before running out to pick up kids and do afterschool activities that kept me out until 7:45. I put youngest DD to bed, then ran out to do grocery shopping, and got home at 9:15
Thurs: It snowed last night! The kids were out sledding in our backyard at 8:00 am:
Fri: I was mush! I think I got about 3 or 4 loads of laudry washed, and a batch of crock-pot sloppy joes (courtesy of the FlyLady website) going – oh yeah, I also entered in (and reconciled) 5 months worth of checkbook “stuff” into Quicken. I also took about 1 hour out in the middle of the day to go pick my DH up at the car dealership where he had left his car for service. Then I had to leave early to pick the kids up at school, go pick the DH up at work, take him to the dealership, swap the kids to his car, and I went to my Friday night job, while he took the kids to TKD.
Sat: Here I am finally blogging. So, hopefully my weeks will calm down (who am I kidding) or I need to figure out how the prolific bloggers do it while writing a book, getting married, raising a number of kids, while also doing a book tour and knitting like a fiend, like Stephanie Pearl-McPhee! Wow, I wish she would let me in on her secrets!
So, I blog on the QT when I can find a minute here and there, and maybe someday, I’ll let on to my family!
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