20 November 2009

Explaining my Thoughts

Ok, so I was thinking about what I just wrote – about the thought that maybe I’d bit off more than I could chew by having all of our boys so close together, and I just wanted to clarify. I don’t feel like I can’t handle all the boys or anything, and I love them all to death, of course. I’ve just been feeling like I’ve got all these different things on my continuous ‘to do list’ that I’d like to get done, and after I get done with all the daily stuff that has to be done, and the things that I need to do here and there, I don’t have a lot of extra time to spend on those things I’d like to do – so rather than getting one project finished and feeling like I did a really good job on it, I’m getting just bits and pieces of each thing done here and there, and nothing really done to my satisfaction. But those are just the ‘extra’ things – like my genealogy, organizing the family photos, editing family videos so the kids can actually watch them instead of just saving them on the computer somewhere, etc. I know, I just need to figure out a way to balance everything, and to cut out the unimportant things, (but, really, it’s easy to cut out the unimportant things – the hard thing is to try to decide which of the ‘important’ things is less important and can go without doing). Anyways, I’m just going on and on. It’d probably be more wise to spend less time writing about this, and instead use this time to go cut Kolby’s hair, so I can check one more of those things that needs to be done off of my ‘to do list’ so I can be that much closer to finding a free minute to do some of the stuff that doesn’t have to be done.

2 comments:

Kat said...

When I read the post before this one, I thought to myself "how does she do it all?" That's a lot of balls to juggle!

However much you may want to schedule "things", I think it must be difficult to try to schedule them around five boys! (At least at their current ages.) Which your post certainly confirmed!

Even though the genealogy research is important (and something you love to do), the history that you're *making* with your family is even more so! :) What a blessed and exciting time for you (and them)!

BTW, I think that the time you take to post your thoughts on your blog is considerably less than the time you'd spend trying to tell the same story to more than one person. (And hopefully saves you a trip to the funny farm!)

And isn't blogging just another form of journaling -- which is a way of sharing your family history?

Remember, your stories may bring joy to someone's heart, a smile to someone's face, or be a source of inspiration to someone who's struggling.

P.S. Sounds like you have a budding artist (or two)!

Nettie! said...

I love your blogging and I agree with Kat - it's family history too! I wanted to let you know that at our house, our boy's door handles are turned around so the locks are on the outside (we got the idea from "Love and Logic")