Almost missed a day. Woke up.from.a dead sleep for this.one. post.
Almost missed a day. Woke up.from.a dead sleep for this.one. post.
I am reminded every day how lucky I am to have such a wonderful family. I love them more than anything and watching my friends go through some really awful things just makes me appreciate what I have and realize how great a team we really are. I’m not gloating, I’m just appreciative.
On another personal note: I have some friends with a very sick little girl. Those of us that know this family are doing everything we can to help them by raising funds to help cover the costs of her ongoing medical treatment. She is looking at a long road ahead and like many Americans, her family has found themselves without adequate health coverage in this crisis. Please, if you read this blog, or visit this blog, stop by the Crazy for Mazie fundraiser page on Facebook and donate whatever you can whether it be dollars or prayers or words of support. Thanks from me and my family as we try to help our friends the only way we can!
Wee Mazie
So busy. Went to a small business seminar. Started a small business. Gearing up for unprocessed week. Raising a kid. Learning to have the hubs home 24/7. I promise a longer post (or two) tomorrow.
This daily posting business is a bit tougher than I thought it would be when I originally set out. I find myself a busier person than I gave myself credit. Being a mom and a wife and living with two other adults who demand part of my attention is somewhat, demanding, it turns out. However, I’ve made it through the first week with a post a day. If you missed the sixth and seventh, you may need to check my other blogs here or here.
Today I’m up rather early and thought I’d sneak a quickie in in case things get hectic later. I’m hoping this can be a casual Saturday after an emotionally rough week. One of my daughter’s playmates has been diagnosed with leukemia and it’s brought some things into perspective for me as a parent. I am thinking of her parents daily and wonder what I would do in their shoes. I hope I never have to find out.
We are blessed with a healthy kidlet. Today, my blog is taking a moment to send my thoughts to all of you who are going through the trials and struggles that come with the news that your child is sick. My prayers are with you today, my friends. And especially a certain Spunky kid I know and her mom and dad as they face the coming days together.
Since I don’t always have access to the zombies computer, I figured I better figure this phone posturing posting thing out. Sonar so god. So far so good. Okay, so maybe it needs some tweaking. For one, The autocratic auto correct is a bit touchy. And I can’t really get a feel for what I want to write on the tiny screen. But in all fairness to the tool, at least I’m sneaking in a daily post on the fly.
I ended up with a second post yesterday. If you didn’t see it, it was here.
Today, what about today? Nothing really happened today.
My life is pretty average and I’m more than happy with that. I’m not interested in doctoring it up for blogging sake. I didn’t do anything fancy today. We hung out, got flu shots, hung out some more, made brownies, and now we are just hanging out. That’s life. We just be.
I used to get really upset by days like today. Words like unproductive, worthless, wasted; they all seemed to apply. It’s different now. I’m not sure when I changed, maybe I’m getting old. Maybe it’s The Kidlet. Every minute is productive in her world. She can spend an hour digging in the dirt and that was an hour well spent. An hour napping? Not an hour wasted, an hour storing up energy to play some serious dress up, paint a bunch of watercolors, build a lego castle and then maybe if there’s time left before lunch, dig in the garden.
Her’s is a different kind of productivity. It’s not doing for the goal, it’s doing for the doing. She doesn’t paint because she has a masterpiece in mind, she paints for the pleasure and the results are pure genius. I’ve learned a lot being her mom; to take a step back and enjoy the process of creating for creativity’s sake. It’s very freeing to think like a 3-year-old.
What’s more, I no longer worry about chores. I don’t worry if the laundry sits undone (and not just because The Hubs is so great at getting it done) or that the dishes are piling in the sink. Instead I choose to linger in the moments of memory making. I soak up every chance I get to just stare at my child or my husband and lock the way they look, the way they sound, the way every moment feels deep into my brain, storing those treasures away for the future. I know there will come a time when The Kidlet won’t march around the living room to the Star Wars theme in her Snow White costume, or when The Hubs will look at me and I’ll realize that the young man I married has grown into a (ruggedly) handsome older man and that those years of traipsing off on a whim to see this or that have been replaced with something new and profoundly settled. These are things I love to watch evolving as our family grows older together.
So, yes, I suppose nothing happened today. At the same time, something did happen. We made brownies and my daughter stirred the batter while my husband and I did the dinner clean up. We tried to turn the cat into a frog but none of our spells worked and it was decided we didn’t have enough “sparkly energy”, like the kind the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella is flush with, to cast the cat-to-amphibian transfiguration. We’ll try again tomorrow. The Hubs and I were able to smile at someone else’s good fortune, despite our own current economic situation. The Fly Boat got taken out for a spin.
Wonder Pets, Wonder Pets
And right now, I’m watching from the den as my two favorite people in the entire world build a Flux Capacitor from two plastic cups and a racquetball. My life is pretty average, and nothing really happened today.
Because I said I’d do this, I guess I’d better squeeze in a post during this quiet moment before I get interrupted. I’m not sure how this daily posting is going to go. I think once the school week is back in and I can get a few quiet hours to read some of the inspiration posts and ideas and to really get into the grit of getting my outlines started in preparation for NaNoWriMo I’ll find a better rhythm. I have some updates to make over on my food blog, so maybe I’ll focus on those tomorrow. I’ve also locked myself out of my FB account. It’s just too big of a time suck. Twitter, I am in you.
There. I posted. Whew. Weight off.
I have to give myself a little laugh-out-loud right about now. Apparently I did publish that post last night and now I’m committed. Or maybe I should be committed… Either way. I better get a cozier chair for posting to these blogs because I’m going to make my best effort to meet this goal of posting daily. Of course now that I’ve said that, I have an overwhelming case of the “I’ve got nothing to say”s. Sheesh. You would never guess that I get at a loss for words if you asked my family. My husband’s looking at me right now wondering if I’m going to run off on another missive on homemade Mayo (more on that on my food blog later) or if he’s going to get to eat his waffles and bacon in peace.
The truth of the matter is that saying things out loud as my brain thinks them and having my fingers keep up with my brain as it thinks them and typing them out on a wordpad or two very different things. My mouth is conditioned. My fingers need some more training. I guess that’s what October is for.
The other thing that’s held me back from writing over the years is whether I actually have any ideas good enough to weight down a novel. This will be a perfect opportunity for me to quit making excuses and just let the ideas flow. Whether they are good, bad, ugly, interesting or just plain “what the heck?” in the end, at least I’ll be writing. Which, like I said last night, I’ve been told is the goal of most writers. Apparently, that’s why my stories aren’t magically appearing in print. The lack of writing. Hmm, something to think about further, but the Hubs left the bacon unattended. Bad move babe. Bad move.
A couple of things. The second week in October, we will be participating in the October Unprocessed Challenge. For more on this, check out my post here, or check out Eating Rules for detailed info.
On a personal note. I really want to be a better writer. That means, I’ve been told, writing. So,
I’m Posting every day in October!
I’ve decided I want to blog (and write) more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a day for all of October
I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.
If you already read my blog(s), I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.
This means one of my blogs (see blogroll) will be updated daily throughout October. Eep.
Signed,
Brandi
I’m doing this because I also signed up to do this
Which kinda makes me think I should not drink and blog. But what’s done is done and I guess now I’m writing a novel in November as well as being a mom. No biggie.
Peace out.
Bountiful Words, Beautiful World 