Holy Cow 8 Kids!

I am not a fan of reality shows. I remember when I was pregnant with my youngest child, back in 1999, the biggest thing back then were these message boards. At the time it was on a website called ParentSoup, and now it is part of iVillage. I don’t participate much at all now, but at the time all the moms were talking about watching a show called “A Baby Story.”

The moms would watch it constantly. I don’t even know what channel it was on. Nowadays it seems like there is this HUGE amount of reality TV, especially on a channel called “TLC” which stands for The Learning Channel. I like to watch a show called What Not to Wear, and it comes on right after a show called “John and Kate Plus 8.” So since our TIVO is a few minutes off, whenever I record What Not to Wear I get a few minutes of the end of John and Kate, so I got intrigued. So one day I recorded it and wow. The mom had only 2 pregnancies – one resulted in twins and the other in sextuplets. So they have 8 kids.

I have gotten a bit hooked on it. I am just amazed at how they manage to keep track of 8 kids, and know a lot about the unique qualities of each one. I would just be completely overwhelmed with 8 kids.

These Blogs Are Addictive

Well, I didn’t find the blog I was looking for. I have a vision of it in my mind, I see exactly how the header looks but I can’t remember the URL. It was a hosted blog, I think I stumbled across it when I was building my Moveable Type blog way back when. It wasn’t on blogspot or the other blogs where you just set up an account and off you go. But I can’t remember the link to save my life.

But looking for it has made me stumble on some hysterical blogs. The one I found today was Mom’s Crazy Life, with the current post http://www.momscrazylife.com-a.googlepages.com/100808. I almost peed in my pants! It described a person who switched to a new cable triple play service and got the phone turned off. It described the ins and outs of trying to get customer service to “fix” the problem. I read a few more posts and I kept thinking that this person has a life really similar to mine.

Musings of an Overworked Mom

This is a “post for the sake of having a post”, though I am sure I will ramble it into something. I have been sick and out of work for the past few days. I have deadlines tomorrow and so I have to make it into the office, so I am only taking half of my cough syrup dose so I can get up tomorrow.  It is very strong codeine which I save for my true emergencies where I am coughing my asthma cough all night and getting no sleep. I usually still cough but I don’t even realize it, so I am at least resting. But it makes me feel slightly hung over and on Monday my son missed his bus so I had to climb into the car and chase down the bus…I wondered if that would count as drunk driving. It was a sight to see because I was still in pajamas.

Anyway, I am loving this class but as usual I have no time to spend on it. I love web design but my full time job no longer has much of anything to do with web design. It is still an Information Technology position, with a company that is doing very well despite the economy. Knock on wood. So that means that we are busy, which is good but at the same time I am just getting further and further behind. My husband has a new job that has a lot of travel. Yet he doesn’t really want me to quit because he likes the security of a second income, which I can’t blame him about at all because he suffered 2 layoffs in 2 years and having the second income, and BENEFITS, was incredibly helpful. But we have no family in the area to help and I am feeling more and more squeezed between the full-time “day” job and the evening clients who I love but who get less and less of my attention. Because the kids have to come in here sometime and I make sure they do, even if the house is less than shiny. But I keep musing on how I would love to make my “home” business more of the focus in my life.

I Can’t Write To Save My Life

I am reading week 4 of this lesson. I realized that although I really want to learn about how to set up sites so they can be “bloglike”, or best able to showcase blogs, I can’t write worth a lick. I never could write well. I may be insightful and can usually carry a good conversation, but the minute I put pen to paper (or more recently finger to keyboard) nothing comes out well. Period.

I guess that maybe the tape recorder kept in my purse might work. My friend used to do that when she was planning her wedding, and she would come up with amazing ideas when she was in the car commuting. So she would pull out the tape recorder then play it back when she got home, and add whatever she had thought of to her lists. But I might have my thoughts well organized, but I don’t think they would be beautiful. There are people out there with gorgeous posts. Barb’s, for example, are so insightful. I really enjoy reading her posts.

I have been searching all over, I could have sworn I had bookmarked this amazing blog about mommyhood. It described the total life from the trenches, the craziness of having small children. Now lately my children aren’t that small, they are 8 and 11. Today we had absolutely no plans, which was amazing. I have a cold so I have been letting them have the run of the house. For a while I was thrilled that I could actually rest. I remember when the kids were little, forget resting! There were kids to feed, diapers to change, mess to clean up. Well, I still probably have mess to clean up but I can at least get them to help. But I really want to find out if that blog still exists. It gave me hope when the kids were little, but when I went back to work I lost the ability to follow it.

I found something similar here, but it isn’t quite the same:
http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2008/07/31/imperfect-blogger-of-the-week-in-the-trenches-of-mommyhood/

It isn’t quite the same. Darn, it is really going to bother me.