So let's not waste any time and just get to the point here....
This blogger has been SLACKING.... big time lately! Sure this "slacker blogger" has lots of excuses.
Rode trips, kids... dishes, holidays, laundry... kids, homework, facebook, grocery shopping, kitchen make over, kids... bills, work, sleep, dinners, kids... you get the picture.
Anyways, I'm calling my self out on this one. As a mother there is no excuse. I promised myself that I would use this blog as a family journal of sorts. You know, documenting all those fun, random, daily, memories and not just the "special occasions". I have always wanted to write down my thoughts and experiences (whether it pertains to the meaning of life, or potty training) so that I can look back someday and A. laugh B. cry or a little of both. It is always interesting to look a things in retrospect.
How quickly these kids grow up and change. How my first born baby, now 6 year old, all of the sudden refers to his brothers as "them". For example... "Mom, don't you wish Dad was here to help you with THEM".
And who would want to forget the day your 2 year old drank shampoo while in the shower with his older brother just because he told him to- which resulted in a bit a vomiting.
Who would have guessed that my 6 year old son's idea of a "skeleton" costume would completely differ from mine. (crazy mask, spikes, leather jackets, and a bloody knife)
Isn't a "skeleton" just a bunch of bones?
Did I mention that he got his first love letter (in Kindergarten) and crumpled it up and threw it away before his dad could see it... priceless.
I have failed to document the special bond my 4 year old son has with his best little girlfriend. How he holds her by the small of the back to guide and walk with her. How she wants to hold his hand (and he does in return too, if nobody is looking), and how these two kids always end up wandering away together to be by themselves when in a group setting.
I didn't write about how traveling home from Utah one day I saw a cute little house out in the middle of no where. with nothing around, and had an unusual thought to myself about how nice and peaceful that must be. (Unusual for me since I usually prefer the hussel and bussle) Crazy how life, children, and age changes a person... even if just for a split second thought.
I haven't written about how naughty and defiant a certain 2 year old little boy can be... about how a particular time out chair is almost permanently placed in our hallway. But also how full of LOVE this same little boy can be, busting out his "I love you Mom" out of blue accompanied with the sweetest hugs and kisses. How he can make me SOOOO incredibly frustrated and mad one minute and so in love with his cute little man self the next.
Did I mention that he is also soooo comfortable with his manhood that he doesn't mind putting on a dress once in a while.
I could go on and on. (My new video gaming obsessed son, giving up the last and final passifier..,.) I have missed so much.
So without further a due...
I Autumn Rosenlof,
blogger, mother and spouse, pledge to do better.
I hope.
4 comments:
You are being WAY too hard on yourself! You do an awesome job about blogging all that, at least in my opinion. I can remember you blogging about Phearson and Collin many times. And, I think you've blogged a lot about the everyday funny or frustrating things that your kids might do or put you through. I am actually jealous of the way that you always do it with humor. I feel like I'm just complaining in my posts about my crazy kids (even though I try not to just complain and whine, it still sounds that way) and I always think how people must think that I don't even love my children cause all I do is complain. You do a great job of finding the middle ground and telling the stories but also showing that through it all, you love them more than anything.
Anyway, I got way to mushy with that one. Sorry! :)
You are too funny. You post pretty often. I guess I know the funny things the boys do because you tell me some of it but it's always fun to read your blog. I wish I had as much stuff going on to blog about but life here with Cody is pretty calm except when he's bouncing off the walls. Anyhow, don't be too hard on yourself, you do a good job blogging.
I agree! You are doing a way better job than I am and I only have one child..which by the way is a girl and you have three boys! You are doing a great job and I love reading about all the crazy, funny things that you experience with those boys of yours!
Um....yeah, if you're a slacker, what am I? yikes. Seriously, you do great. 2011 is a new year! (or so i've been telling myself....)
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