What is it about right now that makes it hard to blog? I've read a couple of other blogs where people are having trouble blogging and I can totally relate right now. I am usually such a motor mouth. But now I just stare at my last post wistfully, wishing for inspiration to strike.
For starters I have been in a foul mood over something personal and I have zero patience. I am short with the girls and that makes me even grumpier, due to guilt.
Secondly, the next two weeks are full of stuff and I don't have the energy to create even though there are some fabulous color challenges out there right now.
Here's a list of stuff I need to do...
(a) finish my pay it forwards. I know technically I have a year to do it, but I know no one wants to wait that long. And let's be honest, things aren't going to get less busy. I have one almost completed, but I want to tweak it a little. I am actually excited about the projects and I hope people like them when they get them.
(b) I really need to get the house organized. D and I cleared out the attic and some of the garage and I swear you would not even know there was anything missing. So much shit in this house. Which is part of the reason I am not having much energy to create. My scraproom/guest room is disastrous. Don't believe me? Here's a list of the things in that room. Spare bed, couch, two bookcases, large 6 foot folding table (where I scrap), bassinet, long coffee table, dresser, footstool. And that's just the furniture. Of course I also have totes that go to workshops and boxes of supplies for CTMH. And a large box of paper trash that has yet to taken out. Oh and lest I forget to mention, the room is only like 10x11.
(c) I need to pack for our trip. We're going to stay with my parents Thursday for Easter. Then we are staying down for the week as next weekend is my grandparents combined birthday party. And we are coming home probably the day after that. So I need to pack for like a week and a half 'vacation'.
(d) The week we come back I am having another two night workshop. Which means I need to finish and finalize projects before I leave. This month I am doing a 'for a good cause' theme. Our layouts will be titled 'I'm a survivor.' And I want to feature pictures of the women in my family who have survived breast cancer. To go green, (even though I'm not the world's biggest environmentalist) I'm taking tons of scrap paper and letting the girls make three of their own cards using Originals patterns that will be donated to the local Hospice. They sell them as fundraisers. And finally the fee will be $10 with $5 covering supplies and $5 being donated to Operation Smile. I am really excited about this project and I am hoping the girls get excited about it also.
(e) Schedule a hair cut. Seriously ugly.
(f) Re-schedule an ob/gyn appointment that I had to cancel.
(g) Don't forget that I really want to participate in Market Days in May. Meaning...get my buttocks busy making stuff to sell!
Hmmm. Seeing it all listed makes me feel both overwhelmed and more at peace. One at a time...one at a time...one at a time...
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Mere, what is is about our scraprooms that people think they can put whatever they like in there and know it will be safe? As I was walking in from work (my part-time work), my DD says to me, "I'm putting Chase's surfboard in the scraproom, I can't leave it in my car cuz I can't see around it." Why it couldn't go on her bed I have no idea. She couldn't put it in the garage her dear brother might touch it.
I hope you have a great time at your parents and don't worry, cuz there isn't a thing you can do about it once you pull out of the driveway. Relax and have fun.
A wise person once said, "If it isn't going to make a difference in ten years from now, it doesn't matter!"
Leslie
Oh I feel your pain. All I have been doing lately is going thru things and getting rid of stuff since we're moving in June. And I'm doing it alone with three kids. I can hardly keep the place clean with me and the kids I don't know what I'm going to do when my husband's home for two weeks in May, he can be quite the slob!!
And my one year old is going thru her terrible twos? Yeah she is. Wicked, over time and I feel like it's because her dad isn't here but I can't say that to him because then we get in a fight about he misunderstands thinking I'm saying "abandon", which I'm not.
LOL.
Plus my apartment keeps flooding. As if I don't have enough to do, I have to keep cleaning these floods and my MIL is up my butt about how she doesn't think it's safe for the kids... I'm a horrible mother.
Oh yeah. PS. I also DESPERATELY need a haircut.
It'll be okay and I'm sure you will finish everything you need to finish and then you'll wonder what you were so worried about in the first place.
As for the blog thing. You can schedule your posts when you have time. That's what I've been doing. Yesterday I scheduled about six posts, so for six days I don't have to worry about blogging! Woo hoo!
((((Mere)))) It will be OK! Don't focus on the whole..baby steps, baby steps. Here is a thought...you are going to see your parents for the weekend, wonderful! I am working Easter Weekend and my kids and I only see my parents once a year! SOOO it is good...it can always be worse.
What is a haircut?
Your blog is a great read...whenever the post arrives!
(I haven't figured out how to schedule a post yet LOL)
There must be something in the air this week. Matt asked me why I woke up "angry and frantic" this morning (having to get a 3 year old up and ready for school in 5 minutes so her husband isn't late to work makes one a little frantic).
I hope my snarky comment about the pay it forward didn't spark this post.
Consider this post your official announcement that you'll be on hiatus until you get back from vacation.
Let D pack for her and M.
Pack a bin of crafty supplies to take with you on vacation so you can work while your parents play with the girls.
After the wedding, ask Marian to help you get organized. Have you ever seen her tupperware? She is an organizing dervish!
Hope everything is okay and you get your personal problem worked out. If it's too personal for this blog, I'm a little worried.
I'd offer some advice on getting a haircut but I'm still waiting for my stylist to call me back for my appointment!
It sounds like you have a lot going one right now. Like the previous commenter said baby steps... Thats the best way to doing it.
off topic.. what do use to cut out shapes (various oval sizes, circles ect..) I was looking at punches then saw the COLUZZLE. Which would you recommend? ashleyisra@gmail.com
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