Sunday, April 1, 2007
Spring Break Casualties
Well, as mentioned before, Spring Break was this week and everyone was home. The Hubby is building a fence, and was mostly outside working. This left the kids and I with a lot of unscheduled time at home. So, how to fill the time?? Well, Buddy discovered a new hobby. Antagonizing his sister--constantly. Sissy is sitting quietly on the couch? Time to sit next to her and kick her with your feet till she runs off screaming. Sissy playing with the dollhouse? Time to get out the big dinosaurs and crunch everything, sending her off into tears. The best one was how he convinced her to sit still while he took the safety scissors to her hair, (pretending to be Mommy cutting bangs), until her hair was in strings and Mommy had to take her in to get it fixed (she now has a pixie cut, here's to it growing out quickly!) School can't get started too soon!
Friday, March 23, 2007
Spring Break!
It's Spring Break! I'm so excited!! Wait... I guess the kids are on break from preschool, and the husband is on break from teaching. I don't really see any break in store for the Mommy, I'm not in school. This means everyone home with me for a week. Hmmm, maybe I should rethink this being excited thing...
I think I'll go plan some "fun time" for the family next week. Maybe a quick trip to Hawaii??
(posts this next week will be spuradic due to spring break.)
I think I'll go plan some "fun time" for the family next week. Maybe a quick trip to Hawaii??
(posts this next week will be spuradic due to spring break.)
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Free Moments
Do you every find yourself in a free moment, and don't know what to do with yourself? Normally, it seems like there is a continual to-do list going in my head…dishes, laundry, projects for the kids, finish that photo album, call that person, etc. Yet, if for some odd reason I find myself with a free 1/2 hour, my mind tends to goes blank and I can’t figure out what to do with myself. I can’t even remember what all those tasks were that earlier in the day seemed so important. I think I should take this as a sign. A sign to slow down and relax, because if I can’t even remember all that “stuff to do,” it must not have been that important in the first place. Or, maybe I just have Mommy Brain again.
Mommy Brain
Do you have it? The Mommy Brain Syndrome. This is when you have over-functioned and multi-tasked you way into complete brain meltdown. Symptoms include the following:
Symptom #1 Being unable to complete one single task at a time. For example, you go to put in a load of laundry. While on route, you stop to help 3-year-old in the bathroom, take out bathroom garbage, wash hands in kitchen, while there get snack for 4-year-old, pick up the baby at your feet, go to nursery to change baby, on the way trip over laundry basket and wonder what it’s doing in the hallway.
Symptom #2 Being unable to hold a continuous thought. Example, you are able to go to playgroup and have simultaneous conversations with five other moms while keeping an eye on your three children and automatically responding to their shouts of “look at me!” but you are unable to have a coherent conversation with your husband about what to do this weekend without asking “what was I saying?”
Symptom #3 Being unable to remember simple facts. Example, you continuously call your children by each other’s names, until you finally just call them all “sweetie.” Unable to keep birthdates straight when talking to pediatrician’s office on phone.
If you have these symptoms, know you are not alone. Unfortunately, all these examples come from my own experiences (okay, like yesterday.) In fact, I’m lucky I’ve been able to write this entry since my brain usually skips around so much I forget what I’m writing about mid-way through! As Chicken Little says, “Wha’ were we talkin’ about?”
Symptom #1 Being unable to complete one single task at a time. For example, you go to put in a load of laundry. While on route, you stop to help 3-year-old in the bathroom, take out bathroom garbage, wash hands in kitchen, while there get snack for 4-year-old, pick up the baby at your feet, go to nursery to change baby, on the way trip over laundry basket and wonder what it’s doing in the hallway.
Symptom #2 Being unable to hold a continuous thought. Example, you are able to go to playgroup and have simultaneous conversations with five other moms while keeping an eye on your three children and automatically responding to their shouts of “look at me!” but you are unable to have a coherent conversation with your husband about what to do this weekend without asking “what was I saying?”
Symptom #3 Being unable to remember simple facts. Example, you continuously call your children by each other’s names, until you finally just call them all “sweetie.” Unable to keep birthdates straight when talking to pediatrician’s office on phone.
If you have these symptoms, know you are not alone. Unfortunately, all these examples come from my own experiences (okay, like yesterday.) In fact, I’m lucky I’ve been able to write this entry since my brain usually skips around so much I forget what I’m writing about mid-way through! As Chicken Little says, “Wha’ were we talkin’ about?”
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Beginning
The beginning starts with life with three kids, all under five. I call them "the Gang." I often feel like a gang of sorts as we decend upon the grocery store, playgroup, or grandma's house. Watch out, here comes a Mom and her Gang! Get out the big grocery cart, put away the breakables, and get the snacks ready. Here we come! Full of curiosity, loaded with energy and ready to play at all times. This Blog is about our adventures in modern-day family life. It's going to be a blast!
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