Another one from the "unpublished" archives is Kate's very best Hide and Seek spot. A spot like this and you'll win Hide and Seek every time.
Then again, maybe she just liked spending time with the bread machine.
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Kate's New Shoes and New Smile
As I dusted off the old blog, I found a couple posts that I was going to write but never did. I had basically just uploaded some photos, never wrote anything, and they sat unpublished in cyberspace for many months.
Ah, Kate's fascination with high heels. I guess it has been going on for quite some time now. My "favorite" memory was walking into the dining room and discovering Kate, who wasn't much older than a year, standing on the dining room table wearing dress up high heels. Talk about having your heart jump out of your chest...and wanting to laugh at the same time.
I'm so fancy!
And this "smile"... now a thing of the past, but hilarious nonetheless. Literally, you would tell Kate to smile and this is what you would get.
Example 2...
I do miss that cheesy top teeth only smile.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
The poor abandoned blog
I have always loved having a family blog. I am terrible at completing baby books. I am not a scrapbooker. I do, however, love to have documentation of all the wonderful and crazy happenings of our lives. I always tried to do about a post a week or at least a few a month...
Then the reality of having three active young kids hit. Almost every day, I feel over my head. Taking care of three demanding kids all day and night is like sensory overload. My quiet evenings are no longer catching up on "me" things, it's often still catching up on "them" things like piles and piles of laundry. Some nights, I am not looking for a little personal, creative fulfillment, all I can muster is a vegetative state on the couch. I can't catch up on long overdo emails to friends or return phone calls. I can't even bear to retell the most adorable tales of adventures that the kiddos got into that day. I relish them but some nights, most nights, there is nothing left.
I couldn't admit this for a long time. Maybe I can now, only because I feel like things are starting to ease up a bit. I can see around the corner that it's not going to be this hard forever. Some days the mental exhaustion seems to ease enough that I can put more than two consecutive coherent sentences together and I feel like a normal adult momentarily. These are the things that they don't tell you about motherhood. You will lose your brain capacity for a while because it can't deal with so much simultaneous stimulation.
I am here to say, I am back. The last 7 months did exist. I am very sorry that I didn't document them here, but as sorry as I am that those memories aren't layed out for the world to see, I am more happy that I was present in those moments than sitting behind a computer screen ignoring my children.
Maybe I'll go back and highlight a few things, like holidays and such, but I'm not overpromising here. We'll take each day as it comes.
Then the reality of having three active young kids hit. Almost every day, I feel over my head. Taking care of three demanding kids all day and night is like sensory overload. My quiet evenings are no longer catching up on "me" things, it's often still catching up on "them" things like piles and piles of laundry. Some nights, I am not looking for a little personal, creative fulfillment, all I can muster is a vegetative state on the couch. I can't catch up on long overdo emails to friends or return phone calls. I can't even bear to retell the most adorable tales of adventures that the kiddos got into that day. I relish them but some nights, most nights, there is nothing left.
I couldn't admit this for a long time. Maybe I can now, only because I feel like things are starting to ease up a bit. I can see around the corner that it's not going to be this hard forever. Some days the mental exhaustion seems to ease enough that I can put more than two consecutive coherent sentences together and I feel like a normal adult momentarily. These are the things that they don't tell you about motherhood. You will lose your brain capacity for a while because it can't deal with so much simultaneous stimulation.
I am here to say, I am back. The last 7 months did exist. I am very sorry that I didn't document them here, but as sorry as I am that those memories aren't layed out for the world to see, I am more happy that I was present in those moments than sitting behind a computer screen ignoring my children.
Maybe I'll go back and highlight a few things, like holidays and such, but I'm not overpromising here. We'll take each day as it comes.
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