Busy Doing A Whole Lot Of Nothing

First let me take one more sip of coffee. Then I’ll be back to this.

Ok. So I took a sip of my coffee. Then clicked on a few emails. Texted a pic of a Candy Corn martini to my neighbor. Put on “Dave Matthews; Live at Red Rocks 08.12.95” which I personally feel is his 3rd best live album…his first being “Live In Central Park 09.25.03” followed by “Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Radio City 08.14.07". I'm biased towards my first two choices because I was actually there and listening to the albums are more nostalgic. Would have loved to be at Red Rocks. Considering the breath of live album releases Dave has coming in 3rd is pretty impressive. So listening to Dave made me want to see if I could google his performance on Sunday night in his Concert for Charlottesville which ultimately led me to almost click on a mini vacation for myself this coming January 12-14- an all-inclusive, Dave and Tim on the beach in Riviera Maya, Mexico. I seriously almost clicked on “Book Now”. And then I remembered I'm a mother dammit. I can’t just fly to Mexico on a whim in January when the kids are in school and they have activities they need to be taken to, drive ways that need to be shoveled and Bar / Bat Mitzvahs to pay for in 4 years.

Thus I digress.

Today I did a whole lot of what on the surface seem frivolous and unimportant probably because they are pretty unimportant. To everyone who lives in this house except for me. Actually, I think the people in this house actually do appreciate it subliminally. (the it being the cleanliness and organization of all the objects in this house from a bazillion school papers to groceries to clothing and just vacuuming and sweeping the cereal off the floor. ) They just don’t know they like it because it’s always been provided. Ya know what I’m saaaaayin. These are things though that make me happy. In my house. Where I spend a lot of time when I’m not working. So it’s 12:43 in the afternoon. Since the kiddos have been in school since approximately 8:30 this morning I’ve accomplished the following:

-Cleaned my kitchen - which included the dishes from last night, this morning and sorting out all the random crap that somehow ended up on the counter tops
-Unloaded the dishwasher
-Cleaned out the random crap drawers on the right of my stove. I sorted all of the birthday cake paraphernalia like candles and odd plastic things that come on the top of cakes and the toothpicks (we have 3 different typed of cocktails and apps)
-Drank two cups of coffee and a few handfuls of Kix
-Organized and cleaned out the fridge. Even wiping out the fruit and veg drawers
-Folded laundry
-Cleaned all the bedrooms
-Picked up the entry way
-Checked my two fantasy football teams
-Replied to many emails
-Cleaned out my email box somewhat
-Cleaned up the coffee table and distributed all the toys and books to their rightful rooms
-Planned dinner
-And one more unimportant, important to me thing

But now, it’s almost 1:00, I have to think about picking up the kids at 2:00 and I feel like I’ve done nothing with my day. And I didn't even work out today…This is a constant struggle I have. First world problems. Bad time management skills? Probably. I easily get sucked into doing mundane things and pushing back the important things. Important things like making a photo album of our epic summer in time for the 50% off sale in Shutterfly. Or I desperately need to find time to make a video of Skye’s first 6 years by her birthday. I have things on Amazon to buy. Girl Scout meetings to plan. Soccer practice to run. Brownies to bake for the School Open House tomorrow night. Walks to register for. Calendars to be written. Emails to respond to. Yom Kippur to plan. Then again,  I guess that’s why there is always tomorrow.

But for today, my bedroom looks really, really good. The blanket on my bed is pulled tight and everything. And it didn’t get that way by itself.

It's Been a While

Holy shit.

It's been almost a year since I've posted. I say that like that little tid bit of news should be a big shocker. I'm a mother of 3 for the love of God! When the heck do I have time to blog? Oh, I have time. But I don't use it to blog. But I should. Cause I find my life quite amusing. At times. Anyway-- last year was good. Pretty status quo.

My twins finished 3rd grade, learned guitar, how to read hebrew and a ton of other awesome things.
My 5 year old finished her last year of pre-school and continues to be a social lite.
I worked a lot from December-May. The agency I was working for offered me full time...but I said no. I'd rather be a suburban mom than a cool creative director at an advertising agency in Boston.

I have to say, I do like the balance. Although the grass is always greener.

We had an epic summer with a month long trip to England for basically all of July. Twins birthdays. Cape Cod. Lots of fun. Busier than usual. But I think we all just love the summer in general because it's generally more laid back. Not as scheduled as the school year.

Kids started school about a month ago now. I have two 4th graders and a kindergartner. All in school from 8:30-2:30. How awesome is that. Total game changer.

So I'd like to get back to blogging. It's fun. And makes me feel somewhat accomplished as a writer. I'll start small and try to aim for a blog entry a week. And lucky you - I've already made good on that wish. Ch ch Check it out. Oh, and here are what the kiddos look like now.

Nuts.