Just a Few Thoughts...

I haven't blogged in a while.  In fact, I haven't blogged much for the last couple of years.  It started when I took the job in Fairfield, IA and didn't have a home internet connection in the cabin where I stayed, or the apartment, for that matter.  Then, one year ago this week, my family moved here and now when I get home, I have stuff to do.  I try to help out with dishes and corralling the kids.  I put Bobby down for the evening and then try to spend a little time with my lovely bride.  By the time we have watched one TV program together (usually DVR'd because we hardly ever see a show live.  It took us four weeks to get through 5 episodes of "24"), it's time for bed.  It is a little better on the weekends, but that's when I try to give Emily a break and let her sleep in a little longer or take a nap.  Not always successful.  

Add on to that an 8-year-old with ADHD, a 4-year-old who lives for "the stage" and will stand on our front deck and sing, "Open the Eyes of My Heart" at the top of her lungs, and a 20-month-old that is still exploring his world and pulling most of the stuff out that was put away, and you have a pretty full life.

And I have to admit, I've gotten lazy.  Facebook is so much easier, but if someone trys to engage me in frivolity like a "pillow fight", I'm likely to ignore them.  I just don't have the time.  My wife has her little "farm" that she tends to and even set one up for me.  I'm just not the agricultural type, so I let her tend to it.  But it's so much easier to write two or three lines and get responses than to sit down, compose some rational thoughts, put them together in paragraphs, and publish them.

I love my life, don't get me wrong.  It has it's stresses and strains and blessings and glorys.  I just wish there was more time to deal with it all.

Oh, well.  I guess that's what being dead is for.  Lots of time then.

Thanks for reading.