A Dutch Blitz Update

I was just talking to my friend Adele and she asked how the kids were doing because I “haven’t been updating my blog as often”. They say there are only so many hours in a day, but lately I feel like someone is slowly taking those hours away one by one. I feel like we’re down to a 20-hour day now, and that’s on a good day.

So we had to resort to the old-school method of an actual conversation to get caught up. It was nice. I wish I had time to talk to every one of my friends on the phone. Seeing as I don’t, I’ll keep posting stuff here, so everyone is up to speed on our lives, whether they want to be or not. Though I guess you DO want to know, or else you wouldn’t be here, right?

I’ll be brief, because, well, I don’t have much time. Especially on Mondays. There’s both Playschool and swimming on Mondays. Throw in the trip to Wal-Mart I did this morning and it’s been a full day already. While I’m at it, why don’t I just list what I’ve done this morning. We all know how much I like lists.

Made and cleaned up breakfast for everyone.
Went to Wal-Mart and then dropped Graham off at Playschool.
Came home, and made cookies for Honey.
Made muffin mix, also for Honey.
Nursed Emily and played with her a bit.
Put her in her exersaucer while I put away last night’s dishes. Then washed this morning’s dishes.
Played with her some more, then handed her to Daddy.
Went with Nathan to pick up Nathan from Playschool.
Daddy had lunch ready when we came home, so that got crossed off of my list of things to make.

I still have laundry to do, and Graham has swimming. Oh, and never mind supper and the WIPING OF THE BUMS.

You know, it’s on days like these when I wonder if I should close down the Dutch Blitz tent. It takes time to post, but it takes even more time to keep up with all of you great people. I’ve tried to make Sundays a “no computer” day. There’s Church and then we try to do some family stuff. Throw in an impromptu visit by some friends yesterday, and you can see that those 20 hours I have are taken up pretty quickly.

I don’t know if I could ever stop posting. Mainly because if I didn’t post, our lives would not be documented. I have a hard enough time remembering the last time I cleaned my bathrooms or shaved my legs, so how would I remember the more exciting things in our lives if I didn’t document them here? I probably wouldn’t, and that makes me sad.

But Mondays are a little discouraging. I don’t have the time to catch up on everyone. Add that to the fact that most of the weekend I don’t get on here, and I’m a little behind. I just opened up my Bloglines and there are 44 posts I haven’t read. FORTY FOUR! Then it starts to feel like I’m behind on yet another area of my life and I think about quitting altogether.

The inner debate rages on. For now I’ll keep posting because I want to remember. And keep up on everyone else. Tuesday may be the day for that to happen.

Anyways…

Emily is doing MUCH better. Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers. She didn’t have it half as bad as some of you have experienced, but her tears were enough to bring on tears of my own. Saturday evening she was down to whimpering instead of bawling, and she only woke up once that night. Yesterday and today she is her normal self, and she even slept through the night last night.

That’s my girl!

I still have to give her the peppermint crap 2 times a day for a month to give her esophagus time to heal. She hates getting it, and I hate giving it. I try to entertain her by singing to her. She smiles, but I have a feeling she’s laughing AT me, not WITH me.

So there’s my update for ya. So much for it being “brief”. Hope you enjoyed it. Now I’m off to do some laundry, and maybe knock a couple of posts off of my “to read” list.